| Mano | |
| Region: | Liberia, Guinea |
| Ethnicity: | Mano people |
| Date: | 2017–2020 |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
| Fam1: | Niger–Congo |
| Fam2: | Mande |
| Fam3: | Eastern Mande |
| Fam4: | Southeastern |
| Fam5: | Mano–Dan |
| Iso3: | mev |
| Glotto: | mann1248 |
| Glottorefname: | Mann |
The Mano language, also known as Maa, Mah, and Mawe, is a significant Mande language of Liberia and Guinea. It is spoken primarily in Nimba County in north-central Liberia and in Nzérékoré, Lola and Yomou Prefectures in Guinea.
| Front | Central | Back | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| oral | nasal | oral | nasal | oral | nasal | ||
| Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Close-mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Open-mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Open | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labialized Velar | Velar-Labial | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasals | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Plosives | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Implosive | pronounced as /link/ | |||||||
| Fricatives | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Approximants | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
The language has nine register and contour tones.