Brief Phonological Characterization of Bora

This work offers a quick description of the vowels and consonants of the Bora language. It also explains the linguistic and sociolinguistic criteria for the selection of graphemes in the Bora language: it highlights the importance of the written tradition for the selection of certain graphemes, such...

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Autor: Napurí, Andrés
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Perú
Institución:Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Repositorio:Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe:article/22574
Acceso en línea:https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/lenguaysociedad/article/view/22574
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Bora
vocales largas
familia bora-witoto
lenguas amazónicas
tono
Long Vowels
Bora-Witoto Family
Amazonian Languages
Tone
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Sumario:This work offers a quick description of the vowels and consonants of the Bora language. It also explains the linguistic and sociolinguistic criteria for the selection of graphemes in the Bora language: it highlights the importance of the written tradition for the selection of certain graphemes, such as <c> and <k> or the removal of <s> and <z>. Finally, this work discuss the presence of long vowels in the Bora language: evidence to date suggests that the Bora language has only short vowels thanks to the processes of derivation with tone in the nominal Bora lexicon