| Buglere | |
|---|---|
| Murire | |
| Pronunciation | [buˈɡleɾe] |
| Native to | Panama |
| Ethnicity | Bokota people |
Native speakers | 18,000 (2012)1 |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sab |
| Glottolog | bugl1243 |
| ELP | Bocotá |
Buglere (/bʊˈɡlɛreɪ/), also known as Bugle, Murire and Muoy, is a Chibchan language of Panama closely related to Guaymí. There are two dialects, Sabanero and Bokotá (Bogota), spoken by the Bokota people.
Phonology
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
References
- Buglere at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Quesada, Juan Diego (2012). Gramática del buglere. Quito, Ecuador: Abya-Yala.