Koromfe language

Koromfé is a Gur language spoken in a U-shaped area around the town of Djibo, in the north of Burkina Faso and southeastern Mali, bordering Dogon Country.

There are two major dialect areas, most conveniently termed East and West.

The western area is also known as Lorom (with two short close mid vowels), which should not be confused with the recently created province of Loroum centred on Titao.

The alveolar flap [ɾ] is an allophone of /d/, which occurs as [d] only word-initially and after nasal consonants.

There also exists a spirantised allophone of /ɡ/, i.e. [ɣ]; phonetic [ɡ] only occurs word-initially, after a nasal consonant, or between two ATR high vowels.