Bura language
Bura | |
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Mya Bura or Bura-Pabir | |
Native to | Nigeria |
Region | Borno State, Adamawa State, Yobe State, Gombe State |
Native speakers | 510,000 (2020)[1] |
Language family | Afro-Asiatic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bwr |
Glottolog | bura1292 |
Linguasphere | 18-GBB-d (-da -db -dc) |
Bura-Pabir (also known as Bura, Burra, Bourrah, Pabir, Babir, Babur, Barburr, Mya Bura, Kwojeffa, Huve, Huviya) is a Chadic language spoken in North-eastern Nigeria by the Babur/Bura people. Dialects include Pela, Bura Pela, Hill Bura, Hyil Hawul, Bura Hyilhawul, and Plain Bura. The language is closely related to Kilba, Chibok, Margi and a few other north-eastern Nigerian Languages.[citation needed]
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Post-alv./ Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
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plain | lateral | ||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | ||
voiced | b | d | ɡ | ||||
prenasal vl. | ᵐp | ⁿt | ᵑk | ||||
prenasal vd. | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ | ||||
implosive/ejc. | ɓ | ɗ | kʼ | ||||
Affricate | voiceless | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ||||
voiced | d͡z | d͡ʒ | |||||
prenasal vl. | ⁿt͡s | ⁿt͡ʃ | |||||
prenasal vd. | ⁿd͡z | ⁿd͡ʒ | |||||
Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ɬ | ʃ | x | h |
voiced | v | z | ɮ | ʒ | ɣ | ||
prenasal vl. | ᶬf | ⁿs | ⁿɬ | ⁿʃ | ᵑx | ||
prenasal vd. | ᶬv | ⁿz | ⁿɮ | ⁿʒ | ᵑɣ | ||
Approximant | w | l | j | ||||
Trill | r |
Consonant clusters also occur among plosives/affricates, nasals, and fricatives.[2]
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | u | |
Mid | e | ə | o |
Open | a |
Orthography
In the 2010 Bura-English Dictionary[3] Roger Blench proposed an orthography similar to that of Hausa includes the Latin alphabet with the addition of the letters ɓ, ɗ, ə, and ƙ. In addition, the following digraphs are used:
IPA | Orthography |
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[ɬ] | tl |
[ɮ] | dl |
[ɣ] | gh |
See also
Notes
- ^ Bura at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
- ^ Blench, Roger (2009). Bura phonology and some suggestions concerning the orthography.
- ^ "Roger Blench: Bura opening page". www.rogerblench.info. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
References
- World Atlas of Language Structures entry for Bura-Pabir
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