Southern Burun is a Western Nilotic language of Sudan. It is a dialect continuum with Burun proper (Northern Burun), Mabaan/Ulu, and Jumjum (Arabic: جوم جوم).
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Phonology
These are from the Jumjum dialect.[2]
Vowels
Burun has 8 vowels. All vowels have long equivalents.
Front | Back | ||
---|---|---|---|
unrounded | rounded | ||
Close | i | u | |
Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | |
Close-mid | |||
Open-mid | ɛ | ʌ | ɔ |
Open | a |
Consonants
Burun has 20 consonants.
Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stop | voiceless | p | t | c | k | ʔ | ||
voiced | b | d | ɟ | g | ||||
Fricative | voiceless | θ | ||||||
voiced | ð | |||||||
Nasal | m | ɱ | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
Approximant | w | l | j | |||||
Trill | r |
References
- ^ Mabaan at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
Jumjum at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) - ^ "PHOIBLE Online -". phoible.org. Retrieved 2019-01-26.
This page was last edited on 30 March 2024, at 21:52