Bora

Meamuyna

Bora is a Boran language spoken in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru, by about 2,400 people. Glottolog rates it threatened.

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Bora · 2.0°S 72.3°W

Bora is an indigenous language of South America spoken in the western region of Amazon rainforest. Bora is a tonal language which, other than the Ticuna language, is a unique trait in the region.

The majority of its speakers reside in Peru and Colombia. Around 2,328 Bora speakers live in the areas of the northeast Yaguasyacu, Putumayo and Ampiyacu rivers of Peru. There are about 500 speakers of Bora also in Colombia in the Putumayo Department. Peruvian speakers have a 10 to 30% literacy rate and a 25 to 50% literacy rate in their second language of Spanish.

Early linguistic investigators thought that Bora was related to the Witoto language, but there is very little similarity between the two.

From Wikipedia · Bora language · CC BY-SA 4.0

Written down

Pámeere ííñújɨri meíjcyame tsá múhójɨ́sɨ́ pañé ɨ́cubáhrádú meíjcyáítyuróne. Pámeere tsahdúré imí meíjcyame mewájyújcatsíñe mépɨ́áábójcatsíiyá tsaatéké éhdɨ́ɨ́válletúmé éhne múu mépañétúéné nahbémuma meíjcyadu.

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).

Words in Bora

Meaning	Word	Romanization
woman	kʷatʃe
person	m3amunaxpi*
name	meme*
eye	aCu*
ear	num37o*
nose	tuxu7o*
tooth	i7gwax3*
tongue	n3x3gwa*
hand	oxc3*
blood	tuxpakyo*
bone	baxku*
skin	m37e*
knee	m3moko*
breast	muxphanye*
liver	i7gwane*
water	nújpacyo
fire	kuxugwa*
sun	nu7ba*
star	m3kurugwa*
stone	nekwayu*
mountain	gwaxu*
tree	ume7e*
leaf	3na7am3*
night	pexko*
dog	o7ibye*
fish	amobe*
louse	gwani7yo*
one	cane*
two	mi5eku*
I	o*