Bujeba dialect

Bujeba
Bisio
Native to	Equatorial Guinea
Native speakers	13,000 (2019)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantu (Zone A) Makaa–Njem Mvumboic Kwasio Bujeba
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nmg
Glottolog	kwas1243

Bujeba also known as Bisio is a dialect of the Kwasio language spoken around Southern Bata and South of Rio Benito, in Equatorial Guinea. ^[1]

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Dental/ Alveolar	Post-alv./ Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k	( ʔ )
	voiced	b	d		ɡ
	prenasal vl.	ᵐp	ⁿt		ᵑk
	prenasal vd.	ᵐb	ⁿd		ᵑɡ
Affricate	voiceless	p͡f	( t͡s )	t͡ʃ	( k͡p )
	voiced	b͡v	( d͡z )	d͡ʒ	( ɡ͡b )
Fricative	voiceless	f	s	ʃ
	voiced	v	z	ʒ	( ɣ )
	prenasal	ᶬv	ⁿz	ᶮʒ
Approximant			l	j	w

• Other consonant sounds occur as palatalized /tʲ, dʲ, kʲ, ɡʲ/ and as labialized /ŋʷ/.
• Sounds /t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ/ are sometimes realized as [t͡s, d͡z] in free variation among speakers.
• Sounds /t, d/ are phonetically dental as [t̪, d̪].
• /ɡ/ may also be heard as [ɣ] in free variation.
• Sounds /b, d, ɡ/ may be lenited as [β, ɾ, ɣ] in intervocalic positions.
• /l/ may also be heard as [r] in free variation.
• Sounds /k͡p, ɡ͡b/ are mostly heard from loanwords.
• A glottal stop [ʔ] may also be heard, however; it is not phonemic and is only heard phonetically at the end of words.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i iː		u uː
Mid	e eː		o oː
Open		a aː

• Vowels /i, e, o, u/ may also be heard as [ɪ, ɛ, ɔ, ʊ] in unstressed positions. ^[2]

References

1. Gomashie, Grace A. (21 February 2019). "Language Vitality of Spanish in Equatorial Guinea: Language Use and Attitudes". Humanities. 8: 33. doi: 10.3390/h8010033 .
2. Echegaray, Carlos Gonzalez (1960). Morfologia y Sintaxis de la Lengua Bujeba. Madrid: Instituto de Estudios Africanos.

External links

• Equatorial Guinea- Ethnic Composition, World Atlas