ISO_639:bwr

Bura language

Bura language

Language spoken in Nigeria

Not to be confused with Bura language (Vanuatu).

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]

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Phonology

Consonants

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Consonant clusters also occur among plosives/affricates, nasals, and fricatives.[2]

Vowels

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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:

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See also

Notes

  1. [1]
    Bura at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
  2. [2]
    Blench, Roger (2009). Bura phonology and some suggestions concerning the orthography.
  3. [3]
    "Roger Blench: Bura opening page". www.rogerblench.info. Retrieved 2022-08-14.

References

Bura language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator


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