Boze language

Boze
Boze
Buji
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Jos Plateau
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Kainji East Kainji Shammo Boze; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	buji1242

Boze, also rendered Buji, is an East Kainji language of Nigeria belonging to the Shammo cluster. Boze is spoken in a contiguous area Bicizà, directly to the north of Jos city in Plateau State, Nigeria.

Dialects include Boze, Gorong, and Firu.

Distribution

Boze (ɛBoze), also called Buji, is spoken in many villages to the west and northwest of Jos.

Below are village names organized by dialect, with modern names given in parentheses.

		Labial	Alveolar	Post-alv./ Palatal	Velar	Labio- velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	t͡ʃ	k	k͡p
Plosive/ Affricate	voiced	b	d	d͡ʒ	ɡ	ɡ͡b
Fricative	voiceless	f	s	ʃ			h
Fricative	voiced	v	z	ʒ
Trill			r
Lateral			l
Approximant				j		w

Sounds /b, k, ɡ/ may also be both labialized [bʷ, kʷ, ɡʷ] and palatalized [bʲ, kʲ, ɡʲ].
Labial-velar sounds /k͡p, ɡ͡b/ may also be heard in free variation with labialized sounds [kʷ, ɡʷ].

1 2 3 Blench, Roger. 2021. Introduction to the Shammɔ peoples of Central Nigeria.
↑ Blench, Roger M. 2018. Nominal affixing in the Kainji languages of northwestern and central Nigeria. In John R. Watters (ed.), East Benue-Congo: Nouns, pronouns, and verbs, 59–106. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1314323
↑ Blench, Roger (2018). Dictionary of the ɛBoze language of Central Nigeria.