| Also Known As: Gurdung,Guruntum
Description:
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)...... full article at Wikipedia |
Location of Guruntum-Mbaaru Language Speakers
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7.621857, 6.974333, Nigeria
9.102097, 18.281250, Africa</googlemap>
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