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The Bub<strong>and</strong>a region is located to <strong>the</strong> southwest <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Bili region. The two<br />
regions are connected via a road which passes through <strong>the</strong> Ngombe region <strong>and</strong> also by a<br />
foot path which bypasses <strong>the</strong> Ngombe region. In fact, one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> eastern-most villages in<br />
<strong>the</strong> Bub<strong>and</strong>a region, Modiri, actually speaks <strong>the</strong> Bili dialect. Fultz & Morgan list <strong>the</strong><br />
population for this region as 11,962. The Bub<strong>and</strong>a region is bordered on <strong>the</strong> east by <strong>the</strong><br />
Ngombe region, but <strong>the</strong>re are a couple <strong>of</strong> Togbo villages on <strong>the</strong> border as well. On <strong>the</strong><br />
west side, <strong>the</strong> Bub<strong>and</strong>a region is bordered by Ngbaka-Minagende. 1<br />
Fur<strong>the</strong>r west past <strong>the</strong> Ngbaka-Minagende region is <strong>the</strong> Mpaka region. This region<br />
consists <strong>of</strong> only five or six villages. Fultz & Morgan do not distinguish it as a separate<br />
dialect (<strong>and</strong> thus do not give population data), but <strong>the</strong> people in this region consider <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
speech to be distinct from <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r Mono dialects. It is bordered on <strong>the</strong> east by Ngbaka-<br />
Minagende. On <strong>the</strong> west, it is separated from <strong>the</strong> Galaba dialect region by four or five<br />
villages each <strong>of</strong> which speak ei<strong>the</strong>r Ngbaka-Ma’bo or Gilima.<br />
The Galaba region has a population <strong>of</strong> 13,540. It is bordered to <strong>the</strong> south by<br />
Ngbaka-Minagende <strong>and</strong> to <strong>the</strong> northwest by Ngbaka-Ma’bo.<br />
Finally, Kaga is <strong>the</strong> Mono dialect fur<strong>the</strong>st to <strong>the</strong> west. It is found along <strong>the</strong> road<br />
between Zongo <strong>and</strong> Libenge <strong>and</strong> has 3,420 speakers. Kaga is bordered to <strong>the</strong> north by<br />
Ngbaka-Ma’bo <strong>and</strong> to <strong>the</strong> south by Ngbundu (B<strong>and</strong>a).<br />
Thus <strong>the</strong> total number <strong>of</strong> Mono speakers according to Fultz & Morgan’s data is<br />
62,102 (Tucker & Bryan 1956: 33 list <strong>the</strong> Mono population as 23,423).<br />
In addition to Mono, several o<strong>the</strong>r B<strong>and</strong>a languages are found in northwestern D.<br />
R. Congo. These include Mb<strong>and</strong>ja (approximately 200,000 speakers according to Grimes<br />
1996), Gobu (12,283), Togbo (10,117), Langbasi (2,900), Yakpa (approx. 2,000,<br />
interspersed amongst <strong>the</strong> Furu), Ngbundu-North (6,572), Ngbundu-South (9,371), <strong>and</strong><br />
1 This group refers to <strong>the</strong>mselves as “Ngbaka.” However, some linguists use <strong>the</strong> label “Ngbaka-<br />
Minagende” in order to distinguish <strong>the</strong> group from o<strong>the</strong>r languages with <strong>the</strong> name “Ngbaka”.<br />
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