Eleme language
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Eleme Audio file "eleme.wav" not found is a language spoken by Eleme people in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. Eleme is a Niger-Congo language spoken by approximately 40–50,000 speakers in Rivers State in southeast Nigeria. It belongs to the Ogonoid (also known as Ogoni or Kegboid) language group, within the Cross River branch of Benue-Congo.[1] The Eleme language was originally divided into two mutual dialects of Nchia and Odido. Nchia was spoken in six communities (Agbonchia, Akpajo, Alesa, Aleto, Alode and Ogale) while the Odido dialect was spoken in Ebubu, Ekporo, Eteo and Onne. Today, both dialects have converged, with a few varying pronunciations.
A unique feature of Eleme is that it uses reduplication to negate verbs.[2]
Writing System
| a | b | ch | d | e | ɛ | f | g | gb | gw | h | i | j | k | kp | kw | l | m | n | nw | ny | o | ɔ | p | r | s | t | u | w | y | ʼ |
Nasal vowels are indicated with a tilde ⟨ã ɛ̃ ĩ ɔ̃ ũ⟩.
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Eleme - Surrey Morphology Group". www.smg.surrey.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-05-01.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Harrison, K. David. (2007). When languages die : the extinction of the world's languages and the erosion of human knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-19-518192-0. OCLC 65425996.
Works cited
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Eyi Ngulube, Isaac (2011). "The Eleme orthography". In Ozo-mekuri Ndimele; Tony Enyia (eds.). Orthographies of Nigerian languages: manual X. Nigeria Educational Research & Development Council. pp. 36–59.
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