Baïnounk Gubëeher

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

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

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.