| Burun | |
| Region: | South Sudan, Sudan |
| Familycolor: | Nilo-Saharan |
| Fam2: | Eastern Sudanic? |
| Fam3: | Southern Eastern? |
| Fam4: | Nilotic |
| Fam5: | Western |
| Child1: | North |
| Child2: | South |
| Glotto: | buru1328 |
| Glottoname: | Burun |
The Burun languages are a branch of the Nilotic languages. They include:
The languages were first described by Edward E. Evans-Pritchard in 1932. They are a dialect chain, close enough for some mutual intelligibility between neighboring varieties.
Most classifications include the family within the Western Nilotic branch, these include Starostin (2015),[1] [2] Hammarström et al. (2016)[3] and Bender (2000). Blench (2012) classifies the family as a primary branch of Nilotic.[4]