Southern Burun language

Southern Burun
Mabaan
Native to South Sudan, Sudan
Region Upper NileBlue Nile border
Ethnicity Jumjum, Mabaan
Native speakers
unknown (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.

References

  1. Mabaan, Ulu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Jumjum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mabaan–Jumjum". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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