Duun language
| Duun | |
|---|---|
| Duungooma Dzuungoo | |
| Region | Mali, Burkina Faso |
Native speakers | 150,000 (2018)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:dux – Duungoomadnn – Dzùùngoo |
| Glottolog | duun1242 Duungoomadzuu1241 Dzùùngoo |
Duun is a Mande language of Mali. There are three varieties of Duun, West Duun, or Duungooma (also known as Du, Samogho-sien) and Banka or Bankagooma, in Mali, and East Duun, or Dzùùn(goo), in Burkina Faso. These are clearly distinct but have a reasonable degree of mutual intelligibility with each other.
Dialects of East Duun, Kpan (Kpango, Samoro-guan) and Dzùùngoo (Samogo-iri), are easily intelligible.
Phonology
The phonology of the Dunn languages contains 26
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
.
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labial-velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Obstruent | Occlusive | p
b
|
t
d
|
c
ɟ
|
k
g
|
kp
gb |
Affricate
|
ts
dz |
|||||
Fricative
|
f | s | ʃ | x | ||
| Sonorant | Nasal | m
|
n
|
ɲ
|
ŋ
|
ŋm |
Approximant
|
w
|
l | j
|
|||
Unrounded
|
Rounded | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Closed | Oral
|
i | u |
| Nasal | ĩ
|
ũ
| |
Half-closed
|
e | o | |
| Mid-open | Oral
|
ɛ
|
ɔ |
| Nasal | ɛ̃ | ɔ̃ | |
| Open | Oral
|
a | |
| Nasal | ã | ||
References
- ^ Duungooma at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Dzùùngoo at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Solomiac, Paul (2007). Phonologie et morphosyntaxe et du Dzùùngoo de Samogohiri (phd thesis). Ph.
 | This article about Mande languages is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |