Bora
Language code
boa
Location
1°41'54"S 72°31'03"W
Family
Boran
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio- velar | Glottal |
Aspirated stop/affricate | pʰ pʲʰ | tʰ tʲʰ tsʰ | tʃʰ | kʰ kʲʰ | |||
Plain stop/affricate | p pʲ | t tʲ ts | tʃ | k kʲ | kp | ʔ ʔʲ | |
Fricative | β βʲ | h hʲ | |||||
Nasal | m mʲ | n | ɲ | ||||
Approximant | j | ||||||
Tap, flap | ɾ |
Vowels | Front | Central | Back |
High | i iː | ɨ ɨː | ɯ ɯː |
Mid | ɛ ɛː | o oː | |
Low | a aː |
Suprasegmental
Tone
Bibliography
Weber, David and Wesley Thiesen. 2001. A synopsis of Bora tone. Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, North Dakota Session 45. 2.
Parker, Steve. 2000. Central vs. Back Vowels. Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session 44. 1–19.
Parker, Steve. 2001. On the Acoustic Qualities of Bora Vowels. Phonetica 58. 179–195.
Roe, Amy. 2014. The phonetics and phonology of Bora tone. Grand Forks: University of North Dakota, MA thesis.
Thiesen, Wesley and David Weber. 2012. A Grammar of Bora with Special Attention to Tone. Dallas: SIL International.