Southern Burun language
Nilotic language spoken in Sudan Plateau
| Southern Burun | |
|---|---|
| Tüŋ Mäbaan | |
| Native to | South Sudan, Sudan |
| Region | Upper Nile–Blue Nile border |
| Ethnicity | Jumjum |
Native speakers | 180,000 (20117–2022)[1] |
Language family | Nilo-Saharan?
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Writing system | Arabic Latin |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:mfz – Mabaanjum – Jumjum |
| Glottolog | maba1272 |
| ELP | Mabaan |
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).
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 | ||
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| 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.
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Part of the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family
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Italics indicate extinct languages
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