Duun language
{{Short description|Language of Mali and Burkina Faso}}
{{distinguish|Southern Samo language}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Duun
|nativename=Duungooma
Dzuungoo
|region=Mali, Burkina Faso
|speakers=150,000
|date=2018
|ref=e25
|familycolor=Niger-Congo
|fam1=Niger–Congo
|fam2=Mande
|fam3=Western
|fam4=Northwestern
|fam5=Samogo
|lc1=dux|ld1=Duungooma
|lc2=dnn|ld2=Dzùùngoo
|glotto=duun1242
|glottoname=Duungooma
|glotto2=dzuu1241
|glottoname2=Dzùùngoo
}}
Duun is a Mande language of Mali. There are three varieties of Duun, West Duun, or Duungooma (also known as Du, Samogho-sien) and Banka or Bankagooma, in Mali, and East Duun, or Dzùùn(goo), in Burkina Faso. These are clearly distinct but have a reasonable degree of mutual intelligibility with each other.
Dialects of East Duun, Kpan (Kpango, Samoro-guan) and Dzùùngoo (Samogo-iri), are easily intelligible.
Phonology
The phonology of the Dunn languages contains 26 consonants and 12 vowels.{{Cite thesis|last=Solomiac|first=Paul|title=Phonologie et morphosyntaxe et du Dzùùngoo de Samogohiri|date=2007|degree=phd|publisher=Ph|url=http://demeter.univ-lyon2.fr/sdx/theses/lyon2/2007/solomiac_p}} The following phonemes are in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
| class="wikitable"
|+Consonant Phonemes ! colspan="2" | |
| rowspan="3" |Obstruent
|p |t |c |k |kp gb |
|---|
| Affricate
| |ts dz | | | |
| Fricative
|f |s |ʃ |x | |
| rowspan="2" |Sonorant
|m |n |ɲ |ŋ |ŋm |
| Approximant
|w |l |j | | |
| class="wikitable"
|+Vowel Phonemes ! colspan="2" | |
| rowspan="2" |Closed
!Oral |i |u |
|---|
| Nasal
|ĩ |ũ |
| colspan="2" |Half-closed
|e |o |
| rowspan="2" |Mid-open
!Oral |ɛ |ɔ |
| Nasal
|ɛ̃ |ɔ̃ |
| rowspan="2" |Open
!Oral | colspan="2" |a |
| Nasal
| colspan="2" |ã |
References
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{{Mande languages}}
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