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        <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Gurdung,Guruntum


<b>Description:</b>

Guruntum is a Chadic language spoken by about 15,000 people (as of 1993) in Nigeria.
Guruntum is a West Chadic language of the B subgroup.
Major dialects include Kuuku, Gayar, Mbaaru, Dooka, Gar and Karakara.
Guruntum contrasts long and short forms for all vowels except for /ɨ/. In addition, two nasalized vowel phonemes exist: {{IPA|/ũː/ /ãː/.
There are two diphthongs, /ai/ and /au/.
/r/ is realized as a flap intervocalically before back vowels; elsewhere it is a trill.
Guruntum has four tones: high, low, rising (low-high) and falling (high-low).<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=7122479 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
        <tr><td><h2>Location of Guruntum-Mbaaru Language Speakers</h2>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/nigeria Nigeria]</td></tr>

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<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/africa Africa] 
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>grd</td></tr>

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      <tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Afro-Asiatic Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Chadic Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[West Chadic Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[B West Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Afro-Asiatic Chadic West B.3 B Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Guruntum Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>[[Guruntum-Mbaaru Language]]</b>

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