Kurmuk phonology

Abstract

This article describes the basic aspects of the phonology of Kurmuk, a previously undescribed language belonging to the Northern Burun subbranch of the Western Nilotic family. After a morpho syntactic overview, the treatment of the phonology includes syllable structure and word shapes, vowels and vowel alternation, consonants and consonant alternation, and tones and tonal processes.

Keywords

• Kurmuk
• Northern Burun
• Nilotic
• phonology
• sketch grammar