Southern Burun language

Southern Burun
Mabaan
Native to South Sudan, Sudan
Region Upper Nile–Blue Nile border
Ethnicity Jumjum, Mabaan
Native speakers
 (75,000 cited 1987)[1]
Dialects
  • Mabaan
  • Ulu
  • Jumjum
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
mfz – Mabaan, Ulu
jum – Jumjum
Glottolog maba1272[2]

Southern Burun is a Nilotic language of Sudan. It is a dialect continuum with Burun proper (Northern Burun), Mabaan/Ulu, and Jumjum (Arabic: جومجوم(?)).

References

  1. ↑ Mabaan, Ulu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Jumjum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mabaan–Jumjum". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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