Ruund language
See also: Lunda language
| Ruund | |
|---|---|
| Chiluwunda | |
| Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola |
| Region | Copperbelt |
Native speakers | 250,000 (2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
rnd |
| Glottolog |
ruun1238[2] |
L.53[3] | |
Ruund (Ruwund), also known as Northern Lunda or Uruund, is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola. It is highly unusual among Bantu languages for allowing consonantal codas and for its reduced vowel system, in which short /e/ and /o/ have become [i] and [a] respectively, leaving only 3 short vowels.[4]
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References
- ↑ Ruund at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ruund". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ↑ Hyman, Larry. "Segmental Phonology" (PDF). p. 8. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
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