Baïnounk Gubëeher is a
minority language
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of
Senegal
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, whose speakers are concentrated in Djibonker,
Casamance
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.
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 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 and is hard to perceive, and minimal pairs are rare.
References
Bibliography
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External links
Baïnounk Gubëeher DoReCo corpuscompiled 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.
Senegambian languages
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