ISO_639:dnn

Duun language

Duun language

Language of Mali and Burkina Faso

Not to be confused with Southern Samo language.

Duun is a Mande language of Mali. There are three varieties of Duun, West Duun, or Duungooma (also known as Du, Samogho-sien) and Banka or Bankagooma, in Mali, and East Duun, or Dzùùn(goo), in Burkina Faso. These are clearly distinct but have a reasonable degree of mutual intelligibility with each other.

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Dialects of East Duun, Kpan (Kpango, Samoro-guan) and Dzùùngoo (Samogo-iri), are easily intelligible.

Phonology

The phonology of the Dunn languages contains 26 consonants and 12 vowels.[2] The following phonemes are in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

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References

  1. [1]
    Duungooma at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
    Dzùùngoo at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. [2]
    Solomiac, Paul (2007). Phonologie et morphosyntaxe et du Dzùùngoo de Samogohiri (phd thesis). Ph.


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