found: Work cat.: Cohen, R. "Oedipus Rex and Regina," Africa (London), v. 47 (1977):p. 16 (The Pabir of Nigeria are a Bura-speaking people whose language and clan histories link them closely to other Chadic speakers from east to west across the southern rim of the Kanuri Empire of Borno. Bura people are traditionally non-Muslim; now dominated by Muslim Pabir minority.) p. 17 (Underneath the Islam/Christian split, both the Bura and Pabir have a common set of strongly held indigenous beliefs & practices)
found: Wente-Lukas, R. Handbook of ethnic units in Nigeria, 1985:p. 299 (Pabir (Barburr, Baabir, Baabir, Baabur, Baabor, Babur, Babira, Babir). Pabir and Bura are ethnically different, but speak a common language)
found: Ethnologue, 2005(Bura-Pabir; language of Nigeria; population of 250,000 includes 200,000 Pabir)
