Baïnounk Gubëeher

Baïnounk Gubëeher
Baïnounk Gubëeher
Native to	Senegal
Native speakers	less than 1000 Gubeeher proper (2011)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Senegambian Wolof–Nyun Nyun-Buy Banyum Baïnounk Gubëeher
Dialects	Gubeeher Gufangor Gubelor
Writing system	Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	gube1234
ELP	Baïnounk Gubëeher

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

Phonology

Consonants

The consonant phonemes of Baïnounk Gubëeher are as follows:

		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.
• Word-final /ɾ/ can be pronounced as a voiceless uvular trill by some speakers.

Vowels

The vowel phonemes of Baïnounk Gubëeher are as follows:

	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.

Bibliography

• Cobbinah, Alexander Yao (2013), Nominal classification and verbal nouns in Baïnounk Gubëeher (PDF), University of London

External links

• 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.