Bujeba dialect
| Bujeba | |
|---|---|
| Bisio | |
| Native to | Equatorial Guinea |
Native speakers | 13,000 (2019) |
Niger–Congo?
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nmg – Kwasio–Mvumbo |
| Glottolog | kwas1243 |
Bujeba also known as Bisio is a dialect of the Kwasio language spoken around Southern Bata and South of Rio Benito, in Equatorial Guinea.[1]
Phonology
[edit]Consonants
[edit]| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Post-alv./ Palatal |
Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | (ʔ) | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| prenasal vl. | ᵐp | ⁿt | ᵑk | |||
| prenasal vd. | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ | |||
| Affricate | voiceless | p͡f | (t͡s) | t͡ʃ | (k͡p) | |
| voiced | b͡v | (d͡z) | d͡ʒ | (ɡ͡b) | ||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | ||
| voiced | v | z | ʒ | |||
| prenasal | ᶬv | ⁿz | ᶮʒ | |||
| Approximant | l | j | w | |||
- Other consonant sounds occur as palatalized /tʲ, dʲ, kʲ, ɡʲ/ and as labialized /ŋʷ/.
- Sounds /t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ/ are sometimes realized as [t͡s, d͡z] in free variation among speakers.
- Sounds /t, d/ are phonetically dental as [t̪, d̪].
- Sounds /b, d, ɡ/ may be lenited as [β, ɾ, ɣ] in intervocalic positions.
- /l/ may also be heard as [r] in free variation.
- Sounds /k͡p, ɡ͡b/ are mostly heard from loanwords.
- A glottal stop [ʔ] may also be heard, however; it is not phonemic and is only heard phonetically at the end of words.
Vowels
[edit]| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | u uː | |
| Close-mid | e eː | o oː | |
| Open | a aː |
- Vowels /i, e, o, u/ may also be heard as [ɪ, ɛ, ɔ, ʊ] in unstressed positions.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Gomashie, Grace A. (21 February 2019). "Language Vitality of Spanish in Equatorial Guinea: Language Use and Attitudes" (PDF). Humanities 2019. 8 (33).
- ^ Echegaray, Carlos Gonzalez (1960). Morfologia y Sintaxis de la Lengua Bujeba. Madrid: Instituto de Estudios Africanos.
External links
[edit]- Equatorial Guinea- Ethnic Composition, World Atlas