Buglere

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.

Buglere
Murire
Pronunciation[buˈɡleɾe]
Native toPanama
Native speakers
18,000 (2012)[1]
Chibchan
  • Guaymi
    • Buglere
Dialects
  • Sabanero
  • Bokotá
Language codes
ISO 639-3sab
Glottologbugl1243
ELPBocotá

Phonology
Consonants
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].
Vowels
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
  1. Buglere at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Quesada, Juan Diego (2012). Gramática del buglere. Quito, Ecuador: Abya-Yala.


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