| Guruntum | |
| Also Known As: | Guruntum-Mbaaru |
| Nativename: | gùrdùŋ |
| Region: | Nigeria |
| Speakers: | 15,000 |
| Date: | 1993 |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | Afro-Asiatic |
| Fam2: | Chadic |
| Fam3: | West |
| Fam4: | Barawa (B.3) |
| Fam5: | Guruntum languages |
| Iso3: | grd |
| Glotto: | guru1271 |
| Glottorefname: | Guruntum-Mbaaru |
| Notice: | IPA |
Guruntum is a Chadic language spoken in Bauchi and Alkaleri LGAs, Bauchi State, Nigeria. In 1993 it was spoken by about 15,000 people.
Guruntum is a West Chadic language of the Barawa (B.3) group.
Major dialects include Kuuku, Gayar, Mbaaru, Dooka, Gar and Karakara.
Guruntum contrasts long and short forms for all vowels except for pronounced as //ɨ//. In addition, two nasalized vowel phonemes exist: pronounced as //ũː// pronounced as //ãː//.
| Front | Central | Back | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | ||
| Close | i | iː | ɨ | u | uː ũː | ||
| Mid | e | eː | o | oː | |||
| Open | a | aː ãː | |||||
| Labial | Alveolar | Postalveolar or palatal | Velar | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plain | Palatalized | Labialized | Plain | Palatalized | Labialized | |||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /m/ | pronounced as /mʲ/ | pronounced as /mʷ/ | pronounced as /n/ | pronounced as /nʲ/ | pronounced as /ŋ/ | ||||
| Stop | prenasalized | pronounced as /ᵐb/ | pronounced as /ⁿd/ | pronounced as /ᶮdʒ/ | pronounced as /ᵑɡ/ | pronounced as /ᵑɡʲ/ | pronounced as /ᵑɡʷ/ | |||
| voiceless | pronounced as /p/ | pronounced as /pʲ/ | pronounced as /t/ | pronounced as /k/ | pronounced as /kʲ/ | pronounced as /kʷ/ | ||||
| voiced | pronounced as /b/ | pronounced as /bʲ/ | pronounced as /d/ | pronounced as /dʒ/ | pronounced as /ɡ/ | pronounced as /ɡʲ/ | pronounced as /ɡʷ/ | |||
| implosive | pronounced as /ɓ/ | pronounced as /ɗ/ | ||||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | pronounced as /f/ | pronounced as /fʲ/ | pronounced as /fʷ/ | pronounced as /s/ | pronounced as /ʃ/ | ||||
| voiced | pronounced as /v/ | pronounced as /vʷ/ | pronounced as /z/ | pronounced as /ʒ/ | ||||||
| Trill | pronounced as /r/ | |||||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /l/ | pronounced as /j/ | pronounced as /w/ | |||||||
Guruntum has four tones: high, low, rising (low-high) and falling (high-low).