Description and documentation of the Brunca / boruca / brunbábác / brunkajk

There is a recent and comprehensive grammar of the language:

Quesada Pacheco, Miguel Ángel. 2018. Grammar boruca. Munich: Lincom Europa.

  • It covers González, Rocío. 1988. "Use and frequency of predicative core suffixes in traditional Boruca narrations". In: Estudios de Lingüística Chibcha 7: 75-120.
  • Alvarado Chaves, Magda. 1989. "The actors in the traditional Boruca narrative." In: Revista de Filología y Lingüística XV (2): 103-118.
  • Rojas Chaves, Carmen. 1992. "Morphology derived from the Boruca language." In: Estudios de Lingüística Chibcha XI: 35-64.
  • Quesada, Juan Diego. 1996. "Boruca approach and topicality: the case of an _." In: Estudios de Lingüística Chibcha 15: 43-58.
  • Quesada, Juan Diego. 2000. "The grammaticalization of specificity (and beyond) in Boruca." In: International Journal of American Linguistics 66 (3): 549-562.
  • Quesada, Juan Diego and Miguel Ángel Quesada Pacheco. 1995. "Boruca ki: from defined to specific and the hypothesis of contiguous functions." In: Estudios de Lingüística Chibcha XIV: 89-99.
  • Quesada Pacheco, Miguel Ángel. 1995. Let's talk Boruca. Div tégat tegrá). San José: Ministry of Public Education.
  • Quesada Pacheco, Miguel Ángel. 1997-98. "The Adjective Boruca." In: Estudios de Lingüística Chibcha XVI.XVII: 157-165.
  • Quesada Pacheco, Miguel Ángel. 2012. «The causativity in the boruca». In: Estudios de Lingüística Chibcha 30: 91-113.
  • Quesada Pacheco, Miguel Angel. 2018 Boruca grammar. Munich: Lincom.

 

  • Constenla Umaña, Adolfo. 1977. "The kinship terminology of the Boruca Indians." In: Revista de Filología y Lingüística III (5): 31-38.
  • Quesada Pacheco, Miguel and Carmen Rojas Chaves. 1999. Boruco-Spanish / Spanish-boruca dictionary. San José: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica.
  • Quesada Pacheco, Miguel Ángel. 1998. "Ethno-linguistic considerations around the translation of the Gospel of Saint Mark into the Boruca." In: Theandrika. Theological and Biblical Review of the Central Seminary 10: 37-88.
  • Rojas, Alvaro. 1990. Analysis of the discourse of the Boruca narrative. Master's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Rojas Chaves, Carmen. 1988. "Description and analysis of the feast of the diabolits of Boruca." In: Estudios de Lingüística Chibcha VII: 121-135.
  • Constenla Umaña, Adolfo. 1986. "Bilingual texts of four traditional Borucas narrations." In: Revista de Filología y Lingüística XII (1): 79-101.
  • Constenla Umaña, Adolfo. 2011. Legends and Borucous traditions. Volume II. San José: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica
  • Constenla Umaña, Adolfo and Maroto Holy Spirit. 1979. Borucous Legends and Traditions. San José: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica.
  • Constenla Umaña, Adolfo and Maroto Holy Spirit. 2011. Legends and Borucous traditions. Volume I. San José: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica.
  • Quesada Pacheco, Miguel Angel.1996. Shan rojc brunbarec rojc. Borucous narrations. San José: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica.
  • Quesada Pacheco, Miguel Angel.1997. Stories of the ancient Boruca. Div xasúj rojc sigi téc rojc. Quito: Ediciones Abyei-Yala.
  • Quesada Pacheco, Miguel Ángel. 1997. "The language boruca in manuscripts of the 19th century." In: Estudios de Lingüística Chibcha 13: 7-100.
  • Rojas Chaves, Carmen. 2005. "The old Shecra, the charm of the river. In: Estudios de Lingüística Chibcha XXIV: 123-131.
  • Castro, Damis. 2008. "Brúnkahk Tek: An Extinct Language. In: Letras 43:51-74.
  • Quesada, Juan Diego. 2000. "Synopsis of a Boruca terminal speaker." In: Native 25: 65-86.
  • Quesada, Juan Diego. 2001-2002. "Adios boruca: Sibu ki ba wí? ra moreng...." In: Estudios de Lingüística Chibcha 20-21: 55-64.
  • Quesada Pacheco, Miguel Ángel. 1995. "Revitalization of the indigenous languages of Costa Rica: the case of Boruca." In: Herranz, Atanasio, Marvin Barahona and Ramón Rivas (eds.). 1995. Bilingual and Intercultural Education in Central America and Mexico. Tegucigalpa: Editorial Guaymuras, 101-128.
  • Jara Murillo, Carla. 1986. Abecedary illustrated boruca. San José: Ministry of Public Education.
  • Quesada Pacheco, Miguel Angel.1998. Sayv roj qui div tégat tegrá (We speak Boruca). Text books for schools. San José: Ministry of Public Education.
  • Maroto, Holy Spirit. 1999. Boruca or bunkajk language or dialect (collection and presentation by Miguel Quesada Pacheco). San José: Editorial of the University of Costa Rica.
  • Arroyo Soto, Victor Manuel. 1966. Lenguas Indígenas Costarricenses. San José: Editorial Costa Rica.
  • Pittier, Henri. 1941. Materials for the study of the Brunka language spoken in Boruca collected from the years 1892 to 1896. San José: Museo Nacional.
  • Thiel, Bernardo Augusto. 1882. Apuntes lexicográficos de las lenguas y dialectos de los indios de Costa Rica. San José: Imprenta Nacional.
  • Valentini, Philip J. J. 1862. Boruca. Unpublished manuscript. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, Special Collections.