Baïnounk Gubëeher | |
Nativename: | Baïnounk Gubëeher |
States: | Senegal |
Speakers: | less than 1000 Gubeeher proper |
Ref: | [1] |
Date: | 2011 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Senegambian |
Fam4: | Wolof–Nyun |
Fam5: | Nyun-Buy |
Fam6: | Banyum[2] |
Dia1: | Gubeeher |
Dia2: | Gufangor |
Dia3: | Gubelor |
Script: | Latin script |
Iso3: | none |
Glotto: | gube1234 |
Glottorefname: | Gubeeher-Gufangor-Gubelor |
Baïnounk Gubëeher is a minority language of Senegal, whose speakers are concentrated in Djibonker, Casamance.
The consonant phonemes of Baïnounk Gubëeher are as follows:
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
Stop | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
Flap | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
The vowel phonemes of Baïnounk Gubëeher are as follows:
Front | Central | Back | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
short | long | short | long | short | long | ||
Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
Near-close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
Close-mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
Open-mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
Open | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ |
Length is phonemic for all vowels. The difference between pronounced as //i, u// and pronounced as //ɪ, ʊ// is hard to perceive, and minimal pairs are rare.