Bora language

Miraña, a dialect of Bora, is spoken along the Caquetá-Japurá river which flows from Colombia to Brazil, and a few villages are there.

Bora proper has 94% mutual comprehensibility with the Miraña dialect.

Another dialect of Bora, Murnane, which has about a 50% comprehensibility with Bora and Miraña, is spoken along tributaries of the Caquetá River in central Colombia.

Loukotka (1968) lists these dialects of Bora:{{cite book |last=Loukotka |first=Čestmír |author-link=Čestmír Loukotka |title=Classification of South American Indian languages |url=https://archive.org/details/classificationof0007louk |url-access=registration |publisher=UCLA Latin American Center |year=1968 |location=Los Angeles}}

• Bora (Boro) - on the Cahuinari River and in a colony in the village of Méria on the Igara Paraná River
• Imihitä (Emejeite) - spoken on the Jacaré River
• Fa:ai - spoken in the Sierra Futahy in the same region (poorly attested, only a few words)

Bora contains 350 classifiers, the most discovered of any languages thus far.{{cite web|url=http://www.peru.sil.org/language_culture/family_jivaroan-witotoan/bora |title=Bora |access-date=2015-06-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150612103704/http://www.peru.sil.org/language_culture/family_jivaroan-witotoan/bora |archive-date=2015-06-12 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.peru.sil.org/language_culture/family_jivaroan-witotoan |title=Jivaroan and Witotoan Language Families |access-date=2015-06-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150612105842/http://www.peru.sil.org/language_culture/family_jivaroan-witotoan |archive-date=2015-06-12 }}

The written form of Bora was developed by Wycliffe Bible Translators Wesley and Eva Thiesen with the help of the natives of the village of Brillo Nuevo on the Yaguasyacu river. Wesley and Eva Thiesen's daughter Ruth is also the first recorded non-native to learn the language. First, Bora to Spanish school books was developed. Then the New Testament Bible was translated. Finally, a comprehensive dictionary and grammar book was developed to document and preserve the language's grammar rules. This has since facilitated more textbooks so that speakers can be taught to read and write in their language, rescuing it from extinction due to the prevalence of Spanish and Portuguese in the regions where it is spoken.

• All vowels have long forms. Bora demonstrates contrastive vowel length.
• /ɛː/ before /iː/ is heard as {{IPAblink|æː}}.
• /i/ is heard in shortened form as {{IPAblink|ɪ}}.{{Cite book|last=Thiesen|first=Wesley|title=A Grammar of Bora with Special Attention to Tone|last2=Weber|first2=David|publisher=SIL International|year=2012}}

• /h/ can have an allophone of [x].
• /j/ is also heard as [ɾʲ].

{{sister project |project=wiktionary |text=Wiktionary has a word list at Appendix:Bora word list}}

• [http://www.native-languages.org/bora.htm Native Languages: Bora] Aces. Feb. 2015
• [http://www.sil.org/about/news/new-publication-grammar-bora A Grammar of Bora]
• [http://www.sil.org/resources/archives/29959 Diccionario Bora-Castellano]
• [http://www.sil.org/resources/archives/30099 Datos Etno-Lingüísticos 1]
• [http://www.sil.org/resources/archives/30137 Textos folklóricos de los bora]
• [http://www.sil.org/resources/archives/29982 Vocabulario ocaina]
• [https://doreco.huma-num.fr/languages/bora1263 Bora DoReCo corpus] compiled by Frank Seifart. Audio recordings of narrative texts with transcriptions time-aligned at the phone level, translations, and time-aligned morphological annotations.

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