Bura language should not be confused with Bura language (Vanuatu).
| Bura | |
| Nativename: | Mya Bura or Bura-Pabir |
| Date: | 2020 |
| Ref: | e26 |
| Familycolor: | Afro-Asiatic |
| Fam4: | Bura–Higi |
| Fam5: | Bura languages (A.2) |
| Iso3: | bwr |
| Glotto: | bura1292 |
| Glottorefname: | Bura-Pabir |
| Lingua: | 18-GBB-d (-da -db -dc) |
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.
| Labial | Alveolar | Post-alv./ Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Stop | voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| prenasal vl. | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| prenasal vd. | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| implosive/ejc. | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Affricate | voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| prenasal vl. | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| prenasal vd. | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| prenasal vl. | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| prenasal vd. | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| Approximant | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Trill | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Mid | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| Open | pronounced as /ink/ |
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:
| pronounced as /[ɬ]/ | tl | |
| pronounced as /[ɮ]/ | dl | |
| pronounced as /[ɣ]/ | gh |