Bura-Pabir (also known as Bura, Burra, Bourrah, Pabir, Babir, Babur, Barburr, Mya Bura, Kwojeffa, Huve, Huviya) is a
Chadic
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language spoken in
North-eastern Nigeria
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by the
Babur/Bura people. Dialects are Pela, Bura Pela, Hill Bura, Hyil Hawul, Bura Hyilhawul, and Plain Bura. The language is closely related to Kilba, Chibok, Margi and a few order North-eastern Nigerian Languages.
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Phonology
Bura has been reported to contrast a voiceless palatal lateral fricative
The voiceless palatal lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in a few spoken languages.
This sound is somewhat rare; Dahalo has both a palatal lateral fricative and an affricate; Hadza has a series of affricates. In Bura, i ...
, ''or'' , which is quite rare. There are thus five laterals in Bura: , though can be analyzed as a palatalized fricative, . Apart from this, its inventory is much like the very complex system of Margi
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Turkish Cypriots or Cypriot Turks ( tr, Kıbrıs Türkleri or ''Kıbrıslı ...
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Orthography
In the 2010 Bura-English Dictionary
See also
* Bura Sign Language
Notes
References
World Atlas of Language Structures entry for Bura-Pabir
Biu-Mandara languages
Languages of Nigeria
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