Contribution à la dialectologie du soninké :Correspondances phonologiques entre le parler du Kíngíet le parler du Jàahúnú

This article focuses on the dialectological analysis of the Soninke language, in particular between two dialects: the Kíngí and the Jàahúnú varieties, belonging to the same dialectal division traditionally called the Eastern dialect. This study consisted in systematically comparing the phonological correspondences between the two dialects considered in order to show the regularities and to propose hypotheses which could explain the conditioning of various correspondences with the extension to a diachronic analysis between the two varieties. Thus it appears that the most productive correspondence concerns vocalism. The main correspondences are: K. a-e : J. e-e, K. a-I : J. e-i, K. a-o : J. o-o, K. a-u : J. e-u, et K. a-u : J. o-u. As for the consonantal correspondences, only one regularity emerges, namely r : 1. With regard to the analysis of the ancient forms of two dialects, it appears that the Kíngí variety would retain more ancient forms than that of Jàahúnú.