Bura-Pabir

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Bura-Pabir is a major West Chadic language spoken primarily in northeastern Nigeria by the Bura and Pabir ethnic groups.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Bura-Pabir canonical 2
Bura–Pabir 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Chadic language
West Chadic language
language
country Nigeria
hasAlternativeName Bura
Bura-Pabir language
Pabir
hasDialects Bura dialects
Pabir dialects
hasEthnicPopulation Bura
Pabir
hasGlottocode bura1253
hasISO6393Code bwr
hasLinguisticFeature tone language
verb–subject–object basic word order
hasMacroArea Africa
hasNeighboringLanguage Hausa
Kanuri people
surface form: Kanuri

Marghi
hasReligionOfSpeakers Christianity
Islam
traditional African religions
hasSVOOrder true
hasTonalDistinctions true
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isEndangeredStatus vulnerable
isSpokenInState Adamawa State
Borno State
Gombe State
isUsedIn Bura communities
Pabir communities
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
surface form: Afroasiatic

Chadic languages
surface form: Chadic

West Chadic
region West Africa
spokenBy Bura people
Pabir people
spokenIn Nigeria
spokenInRegion northeastern Nigeria
subfamilyOf Afroasiatic languages
surface form: Afroasiatic

Chadic languages
surface form: Chadic

West Chadic
usedFor daily communication
local trade
traditional oral literature

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

West Chadic hasMajorLanguage Bura-Pabir
Babur/Bura people ethnolinguisticGroup Bura-Pabir
this entity surface form: Bura–Pabir
Bura hasAlternativeName Bura-Pabir