Bura language
Language spoken in Nigeria
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Bura (also known as Burah, Burra, Bourrah, Bura-Pabir, Babir, Babur, Barburr, Mya Bura, Kwojeffa, Huve, Huviya) is a Chadic language spoken in North-eastern Nigeria by the Bura-Pabir 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.[2]
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Chadic
- Biu–Mandara
- Bura–Higi
- Bura languages (A.2)
- Bura
- Bura languages (A.2)
- Bura–Higi
- Biu–Mandara
| Bura | |
|---|---|
| Mya Bura or Bura-Pabir | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Borno State, Adamawa State, Yobe State, Gombe State |
Native speakers | 510,000 (2020)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bwr |
| Glottolog | bura1292 |
| Linguasphere | (-da -db -dc) 18-GBB-d (-da -db -dc) |
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Post-alv./ Palatal |
Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.[3]
Vowels
Orthography
In the 2010 Bura-English Dictionary,[4] Roger Blench proposed an orthography similar to that of Hausa based on the Latin alphabet with the addition of the letters ɓ, ɗ, ə, and ƙ, as well as the following digraphs:
| IPA | Orthography |
|---|---|
| [ɬ] | tl |
| [ɮ] | dl |
| [ɣ] | gh |
