Bura language

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.[1]

Not to be confused with Bura language (Vanuatu).
Bura
Mya Bura or Bura-Pabir
Native toNigeria
RegionBorno State, Adamawa State, Yobe State, Gombe State
Native speakers
528,000 (2010)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3bwr
Glottologbura1292
Linguasphere18-GBB-d (-da -db -dc)

Phonology

Bura has been reported to contrast a voiceless palatal lateral fricative, ʎ̝̊ or 𝼆, which is quite rare. There are thus five laterals in Bura: [l ʎ ɬ ɮ ʎ̝̊], though ʎ̝̊ can be analyzed as a palatalized fricative, /ɬʲ/. Apart from this, its inventory is much like the very complex system of Margi.

Orthography

In the 2010 Bura-English Dictionary[2] 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
[ɬ] tl
[ɮ] dl
[ɣ] gh

See also

Notes
  1. Bura at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. "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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