Buglere

Buglere
Murire
Pronunciation	[buˈɡleɾe]
Native to	Panama
Native speakers	18,000 (2012)
Language family	Chibchan Guaymi Buglere
Dialects	Sabanero Bokotá
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sab
Glottolog	bugl1243
ELP	Bocotá

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.

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.