"This book describes the phonology and morphology of the Bili dialect of Mono, a Banda language found in the northwestern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, formerly Zaire). -- p. 1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-283) and indexes "This book is a revision of my University of Chicago Ph.D. dissertation. Two of the appendices in the dissertation have been published elsewhere: An evaluation of Niger-Congo classification is available as Olson (2004), and Cross-Linguistic insights on the labial flap has become two papers: Olson and Hajeck (2003) and Olson and Hajeck (2004)." -- p. xiii