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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

1. ^ Cobbinah (2013:3)
2. "Baïnounk Gubëeher" (PDF).
3. ^ "Endangered Languages Project - Baïnounk Gubëeher".
4. Cobbinah (2013:22)
5. ^ Cobbinah (2013:166)
6. Cobbinah (2013:167)
7. Cobbinah (2013:167–168)

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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