Burun languages

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

  • North Burun (Maiak, Kurmuk, Burun proper)
  • South Burun (Mabaan, Ulu, Jumjum)
Burun
Geographic
distribution
South Sudan, Sudan
Linguistic classificationNilo-Saharan?
Glottologburu1301  (Burun)[1]

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),[2][3] Hammarström et al. (2016)[4] and Bender (2000). Blench (2012) classifies the family as a primary branch of Nilotic.[5]

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Burun". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Starostin, George (2015). Языки Африки. Опыт построения лексикостатистической классификации. Том II. Восточносуданские языки [The Languages of Africa: A New Lexicostatistical Classification.] (in Russian). II: The Eastern Sudanic Languages. Moscow: Languages of Slavic Culture. ISBN 9785457890718.
  3. Starostin, George (2015) The Eastern Sudanic hypothesis tested through lexicostatistics: current state of affairs (Draft 1.0)
  4. 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.
  5. Nilo-Saharan list (Blench 2012)


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