The Burun languages are a branch of the Western Nilotic languages. They include:
North Burun (Maiak, Kurmuk, Burun proper) South Burun (Mabaan, Ulu, Jumjum)
The languages were first described by Edward E. Evans-Pritchard in 1932. They are a dialect chain, close enough for some mutual intelligibility between neighboring varieties.
Most classifications include the family within the Western Nilotic branch, these include Starostin (2015),Starostin, George (2015) The Eastern Sudanic hypothesis tested through lexicostatistics: current state of affairs (Draft 1.0) Hammarström et al. (2016)Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Western Nilotic". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. and Bender (2000). Blench (2012) classifies the family as a primary branch of Nilotic.Nilo-Saharan list (Blench 2012)
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