Banyun (Banyum), Nyun, or Bainouk, is a Senegambian dialect cluster of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau.
Spellings are Bagnoun, Banhum, Banyung and Bainuk, Banyuk; other names are Elomay ~ Elunay; for the Gunyaamolo variety Ñuñ or Nyamone, and for Gunyuño Guñuun or Samik.[2] The language is referred to as gu-jaaxər by its speakers.[3]
See Baïnounk Gubëeher for the phonology of a closely related language, sometimes thought to be a dialect of Banyum.
^Bainouk-Gunyaamolo at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Bainouk-Gunyuño at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Bainouk-Samik (duplicate code) at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
^Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
^Wilson, William André Auquier. 2007. Guinea Languages of the Atlantic group: description and internal classification. (Schriften zur Afrikanistik, 12.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
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