Loading AI tools
Language spoken in Nigeria From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.[citation needed]
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
| |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bwr |
Glottolog | bura1292 |
Linguasphere | (-da -db -dc) 18-GBB-d (-da -db -dc) |
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.[2]
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 |
---|---|
[ɬ] | tl |
[ɮ] | dl |
[ɣ] | gh |
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.