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The Burun languages are a branch of the Nilotic languages. They include:

• North Burun (Maiak, Kurmuk, Burun proper)
• South Burun (Mabaan, Ulu, Jumjum)

The languages were first described by Edward E. Evans-Pritchard in 1932. They are a dialect chain, close enough for some mutual intelligibility between neighboring varieties.

Most classifications include the family within the Western Nilotic branch, these include Starostin (2015), Hammarström et al. (2016) and Bender (2000). Blench (2012) classifies the family as a primary branch of Nilotic.

References

1. Starostin, George (2015). Языки Африки. Опыт построения лексикостатистической классификации. Том II. Восточносуданские языки [The Languages of Africa: A New Lexicostatistical Classification.] (in Russian). Vol. II: The Eastern Sudanic Languages. Moscow: Languages of Slavic Culture. ISBN 9785457890718.
2. Starostin, George (2015) The Eastern Sudanic hypothesis tested through lexicostatistics: current state of affairs (Draft 1.0)
3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Western Nilotic". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
4. Nilo-Saharan list (Blench 2012)

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