| Southern Burun | |
| Nativename: | Tüŋ Mäbaan |
| States: | South Sudan, Sudan |
| Region: | Upper Nile–Blue Nile border |
| Ethnicity: | Jumjum |
| Date: | 2017–2022 |
| Ref: | e27 |
| Familycolor: | Nilo-Saharan |
| Fam2: | Eastern Sudanic? |
| Fam3: | Southern Eastern? |
| Fam4: | Nilotic |
| Fam5: | Western |
| Fam6: | Burun |
| Dia1: | Bwonyin |
| Dia2: | Ulu |
| Dia3: | Twok |
| Script: | Arabic Latin |
| Lc1: | mfz |
| Ld1: | Mabaan |
| Lc2: | jum |
| Ld2: | Jumjum |
| Glotto: | maba1272 |
| Glottorefname: | Mabaan–Jumjum |
| Elp: | 5925 |
| Elpname: | Mabaan |
Southern Burun is a Western Nilotic language of Sudan. It is a dialect continuum with Burun proper (Northern Burun), Mabaan/Ulu, and Jumjum (Arabic: جوم جوم).
Sample texts from "Mabaan Dictionary".[1]
| Translation | Nyanna, when you go to Mulle's village, ask Mulle for my oil gourd the gourd that she borrowed the other day. When she gives it to you bring it in your hand so that I can pour out some of my oil because I don't have any left. | |
|---|---|---|
| Latin Script | Ñanna,ne i ooddi ban Mullinyɛ,dala ne i toocca Mulliti te lwañgɔn ’ya lwañgɔn ’uannɛ ɛkɛ oŋiti. Dala ne i ’wondi owwa bieŋiti aŋka ’ya buaga luayi ñɔn ’ya acaan ’ya balka gɛɛl moki bɛɛ. |
These are from the Jumjum dialect.[2]
Burun has 8 vowels. All vowels have long equivalents.
| Front | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | |||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||
| Close-mid | ||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ʌ | ɔ | |
| Open | a | |||
Burun has 20 consonants.
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | c | k | ʔ | |||
| voiced | b | d | ɟ | g | |||||
| Fricative | voiceless | θ | |||||||
| voiced | ð | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | ɱ | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||
| Approximant | w | l | j | ||||||
| Trill | r | ||||||||