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Bura
Mya Bura or Bura-Pabir
Native toNigeria
RegionBorno State, Adamawa State, Yobe State, Gombe State
Native speakers510,000 (2020)
Language familyAfro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3bwr
Glottologbura1292
Linguasphere(-da -db -dc) 18-GBB-d (-da -db -dc)

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.

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
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.

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close i u
Mid e ə o
Open a

Orthography

In the 2010 Bura-English Dictionary, 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
tl
dl
gh

See also

Notes

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

References

Languages of Nigeria
Official languages
National languages
Recognised languages
Indigenous languages
Indigenous languages (grouped by Nigerian state)
Adamawa
Akwa Ibom
Bauchi
Bayelsa
Benue
Borno
Cross River
Delta
Edo
Gombe
Jigawa
Kaduna
Kano
Kebbi
Kogi
Kwara
Nasarawa
Niger
Ondo
Plateau
Rivers
Taraba
Yobe
Sign languages
Immigrant languages
Scripts
Biu–Mandara languages
Tera (A.1)
Bura–Higi
Bura–Marghi (A.2)
Higi (A.3)
Others
Wandala
(Mandara) (A.4)
East
West
Others
Mafa (A.5)
Northeast
South (A)
South (B)
South (C)
South (D)
Others
Daba (A.7)
North
South
Bata
(Gbwata) (A.8)
Mandage
(Kotoko) (B.1)
North
South
Others
East–
Central
Munjuk (B.2)
Mida'a (< B.1)
Others
Others
Italics indicate extinct languages. See also: Chadic languages


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