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.
| Duun | |
|---|---|
| Duungooma Dzuungoo | |
| Region | Mali, Burkina Faso |
Native speakers | 150,000 (2018)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:dux – Duungoomadnn – Dzùùngoo |
| Glottolog | duun1242 Duungoomadzuu1241 Dzùùngoo |
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.[2] The following phonemes are in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labial-velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Obstruent | Occlusive | p | t | c | k | kp gb |
| Affricate | ts dz | |||||
| Fricative | f | s | ʃ | x | ||
| Sonorant | Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ŋm |
| Approximant | w | l | j | |||
| Unrounded | Rounded | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Closed | Oral | i | u |
| Nasal | ĩ | ũ | |
| Half-closed | e | o | |
| Mid-open | Oral | ɛ | ɔ |
| Nasal | ɛ̃ | ɔ̃ | |
| Open | Oral | a | |
| Nasal | ã | ||