Baïnounk Gubëeher
Baïnounk Gubëeher is a minority language of Senegal, whose speakers are concentrated in Djibonker, Casamance.[1]
Baïnounk Gubëeher | |
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Baïnounk Gubëeher | |
Native to | Senegal[1] |
Native speakers | less than 1000 Gubeeher proper (2011)[2] |
Dialects |
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Latin script[3] | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | gube1234 [5] |
Phonology
Consonants
The consonant phonemes of Baïnounk Gubëeher are as follows:[6]
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
Stop | voiceless | p | t | c | k | |
voiced | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | ||
Fricative | f | s | x | h | ||
Approximant | w | l | j | |||
Flap | ɾ | |||||
Notes
- The phonemic status of geminated consonants is uncertain. There are a few words that have them, but there are no minimal pairs.[6]
- Word-final /ɾ/ can be pronounced as a voiceless uvular trill by some speakers.[6]
Vowels
The vowel phonemes of Baïnounk Gubëeher are as follows:[7]
Front | Central | Back | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
short | long | short | long | short | long | |
Close | i | iː | u | uː | ||
Near-close | ɪ | ɪː | ʊ | ʊː | ||
Close-mid | e | eː | ə | əː | o | oː |
Open-mid | ɛ | ɛː | ɔ | ɔː | ||
Open | a | aː |
Length is phonemic for all vowels. The difference between /i, u/ and /ɪ, ʊ/ is hard to perceive, and minimal pairs are rare.[8]
gollark: The process manager does it to kill rednet.
gollark: <@563866872702042132> Yes, but it's not very necessary.
gollark: Okay, there are *not* any strings containing Hitler as far as I can tell.
gollark: It's a web API.
gollark: I can go check.
References
- Cobbinah (2013:3)
- "Baïnounk Gubëeher" (PDF).
- "Endangered Languages Project - Baïnounk Gubëeher".
- Cobbinah (2013:22)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gubeeher-Gufangor-Gubelor". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Cobbinah (2013:166)
- Cobbinah (2013:167)
- Cobbinah (2013:167–168)
Bibliography
- Cobbinah, Alexander Yao (2013), Nominal classification and verbal nouns in Baïnounk Gubëeher (PDF), University of London
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