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Buglere Indian Language (Buglé)

Buglere is a Chibchan language of Central America, spoken by 1000 people in Panama and Costa Rica. Like most Chibchan languages, Buglere is a tone language with SOV word order. Many linguists consider Buglere and Bogota to be dialects of a single language, but according to the people themselves, speakers of the two languages cannot understand each other. In Panama, the Buglé and their kinfolk the Ngöbe (or Guaymi) have joined into a single Buglé-Ngöbe tribe.



˜Our Online Buglere Materials

Buglere Words:
    Our list of vocabulary words in the Buglere language, with comparison to words in other Chibchan languages.

˜Buglere Language Resources

La Lengua Bokota
     Information on the Bogota and Buglere languages. Page in Spanish.
Un alfabeto para el Bocotá de Chiriquí:
     Paper on Bogota and Buglere orthography. Page in Spanish.
Buglere-Bogota
     Demographic information on Buglere from the Ethnologue of Languages.

˜Buglere Culture and History Links

Bugle and Bogota Culture:
    Articles on the history and traditions of the Buglere tribe.
Panama Indigenous People:
    History of the Nôbe-Buglé tribe and other Panama Indians.
Ngöbe-Buglé:
    Wikipedia article on the Ngäbe and Buglé Indians.



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