Duun language

Not to be confused with Southern Samo language.
Duun
Region Mali, Burkina Faso
Native speakers
80,000 (1998)[1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
dux  West Duun
dnn  East Duun
Glottolog duun1242  (Duungooma)[2]
dzuu1241  (Dzuungoo)[3]

Duun is a Mande language of Mali. There are two principal varieties of Duun, West Duun, or Duungooma (AKA Du, Samogho-sien), in Mali, and East Duun, or Dzuungoo, in Burkina Faso. These are clearly distinct but have a reasonable degree of mutual intelligibility with each other and with Banka (Bankagooma). Dialects of East Duun, Kpan (Kpango, Samoro-guan) and Dzùùngoo (Samogo-iri), are easily intelligible.

References

  1. West Duun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    East Duun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Duungooma". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Dzuungoo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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