Baïnounk Gubëeher

Baïnounk Gubëeher is a minority language of Senegal, whose speakers are concentrated in Djibonker, Casamance.[1]

Baïnounk Gubëeher
Baïnounk Gubëeher
Native toSenegal[1]
Native speakers
less than 1000 Gubeeher proper (2011)[2]
Niger–Congo?
Dialects
  • Gubeeher
  • Gufangor
  • Gubelor
Latin script[3]
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologgube1234
ELPBaïnounk Gubëeher

Phonology

Consonants

The consonant phonemes of Baïnounk Gubëeher are as follows:[5]

Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
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.[5]
  • Word-final /ɾ/ can be pronounced as a voiceless uvular trill by some speakers.[5]

Vowels

The vowel phonemes of Baïnounk Gubëeher are as follows:[6]

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.[7]

References
  1. Cobbinah (2013:3)
  2. "Baïnounk Gubëeher" (PDF).
  3. "Endangered Languages Project - Baïnounk Gubëeher".
  4. Cobbinah (2013:22)
  5. Cobbinah (2013:166)
  6. Cobbinah (2013:167)
  7. Cobbinah (2013:167–168)

Bibliography
  • Baïnounk Gubëeher DoReCo corpus compiled by Alexander Yao Cobbinah. Audio recordings of narrative texts with transcriptions time-aligned at the phone level, translations, and - for some texts - time-aligned morphological annotations.
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