Southern Burun language
| Southern Burun | |
|---|---|
| Mabaan | |
| Native to | South Sudan, Sudan |
| Region | Upper Nile–Blue Nile border |
| Ethnicity | Jumjum, Mabaan |
Native speakers | 150,000 (2012-2017)[1][2] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:mfz – Mabaan, Ulujum – 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: جومجوم(?)).
Phonology[]
These are from the Jumjum dialect.[3]
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[]
Categories:
- Luo languages
- Nilo-Saharan language stubs