Bujeba dialect
Bujeba also known as Bisio is a dialect of the Kwasio language spoken around Southern Bata and South of Rio Benito, in Equatorial Guinea.
Phonology
Consonants
- Other consonant sounds occur as palatalized /tʲ, dʲ, kʲ, ɡʲ/ and as labialized /ŋʷ/.
- Sounds /t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ/ are sometimes realized as in free variation among speakers.
- Sounds /t, d/ are phonetically dental as .
- /ɡ/ may also be heard as in free variation.
- Sounds /b, d, ɡ/ may be lenited as in intervocalic positions.
- /l/ may also be heard as in free variation.
- Sounds /k͡p, ɡ͡b/ are mostly heard from loanwords.
- A glottal stop may also be heard, however; it is not phonemic and is only heard phonetically at the end of words.
Vowels
- Vowels /i, e, o, u/ may also be heard as in unstressed positions.