Baïnounk Gubëeher
Bainounk Gubeeher Language
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:
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:
Length is phonemic for all vowels. The difference between /i, u/ and /ɪ, ʊ/ is hard to perceive, and minimal pairs are rare.
References
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.
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