Buglere
Buglere | |
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Murire | |
Pronunciation | [buˈɡleɾe] |
Native to | Panama |
Native speakers | 18,000 (2012)[1] |
Chibchan
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | sab |
Glottolog | bugl1243 |
ELP | Bocotá |
Buglere, also known as Bugle, Murire and Muoy, is a Chibchan language of Panama closely related to Guaymi. There are two dialects, Sabanero and Bokotá (Bogota), spoken by the Bokota people.
Phonology
[edit]Labial | Dental/ Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | t | tʃ | k | ||
voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | ||
Fricative | s | h | ||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
Rhotic | ɾ | |||||
Lateral | l | |||||
Approximant | w | j |
- Voiced sounds /b, d, ɡ/ may be heard as fricatives [β, ð, ɣ] in intervocalic position.
- /dʒ/ may also be heard as [ʒ] in intervocalic position.
- /ŋ/ when before a vowel in word-initial position can also be heard as a palatal [ɲ].
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | u | |
Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | |
Mid | e | o | |
Open | a |
- Vowel sounds /e, o/ can also have short allophones of [ɛ, ɔ].
- Vowels can also be heard as nasalized when in the positions of nasal consonants.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Buglere at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Quesada, Juan Diego (2012). Gramática del buglere. Quito, Ecuador: Abya-Yala.