Baïnounk Gubëeher is a minority language of Senegal, whose speakers are concentrated in Djibonker, Casamance.
Phonology
Consonants The consonant phonemes of Baïnounk Gubëeher are as follows: Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal Nasal Stop Fricative Approximant Flap
Notes The phonemic status of geminated consonants is uncertain. There are a few words that have them, but there are no minimal pairs. Word-final can be pronounced as a voiceless uvular trill by some speakers.
Vowels The vowel phonemes of Baïnounk Gubëeher are as follows:
Front Central Back short long short long short long Close Near-close Close-mid Open-mid Open
Length is phonemic for all vowels. The difference between and is hard to perceive, and minimal pairs are rare.
References
Bibliography
External links Baïnounk Gubëeher DoReCo corpus compiled by Alexander Yao Cobbinah. Audio recordings of narrative texts with transcriptions time-aligned at the phone level, translations, and - for some texts - time-aligned morphological annotations.