Isoko language
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Isoko is an Edoid language, spoken by the Isoko people in the Isoko region of Delta State and Bayelsa. The Isoko language has about 20 to 21 dialects, but the Aviara/Uzere dialect is the standard dialect of the language.[citation needed]
Michael A. Marioghae, working with Peter Ladefoged in 1962, made one of a few audio recordings of sample Isoko words that are made available at the UCLA phonetics archive.[1]
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Dental-Palatal | Alveolar | Palatal/Palato-alveolar | Velar | Labial–velar | Labiovelar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | (n̪) | n̪ɲ | n | (ɲ) | ŋʷ | |||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t̪ | (t̪c) | t | (c) | k | (kp) | |||
| voiced | b | d̪ | (d̪ɟ) | d | (ɟ) | ɡ | ɡb | (ɡʷ) | |||
| Implosive | voiceless | ƥ | |||||||||
| voiced | ɓ | ||||||||||
| Affricate | voiceless | (tʃ) | |||||||||
| voiced | dʒ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | (ɸ) | f | s | ʃ | (x) | ʍ ~ hʷ | h | |||
| voiced | v | z | ɣ | ɣʷ | |||||||
| breathy | v̤ | (z̤) | ɦ | ||||||||
| Approximant | central | ɹ | j | w | |||||||
| lateral | l | ||||||||||
| Tap | ɾ | ||||||||||
| Trill | r | ||||||||||
Consonants in parentheses occur in dialects other than Uzere.
According to Template:Harvcoltxt, the following phonetic variations exist between dialects:
- [n̪] ~ [n̪ɲ] ~ [ɲ] ~ [hʲ] ~ [j]
- [ŋʷ] ~ [hʷ] ~ [ʍ]
- [t̪] ~ [t̪c] ~ [c]
- [d̪] ~ [d̪ɟ] ~ [ɟ] ~ [dʒ] ~ [ɡʲ] ~ [d]
- [ƥ] ~ [kp]
- [ɓ] ~ [ɡb]
- [tʃ] ~ [kʲ]
- [dʒ] ~ [ɡʲ] ~ [d]
- [ɾ] ~ [r] ~ [ɹ]
- [v] ~ [v̤] ~ [ɸ]
- [z] ~ [z̤] ~ [ɹ̝]
- [x] ~ [ɣ] ~ [ɡ]
- [xʷ] ~ [ɣʷ] ~ [ɡʷ]
- [ɦɾ] ~ [ɹ] ~ [l]
- [hʷ] ~ [ʍ]
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u |
| Close-mid | e | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ ⟨ẹ⟩ | ɔ ⟨ọ⟩ |
| Open | a | |
Orthography
| A | B | D | E | Ẹ | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M |
| N | O | Ọ | P | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y | Z |
| CH | GB | GH | HW | KP | NW | NY | SH | TH | WH |
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Isoko". archive.phonetics.ucla.edu.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Donwa-Ifode, Shirley (1986). "Phonetic Variation in Consonants (Isoko)". Anthropological Linguistics. 28 (2): 149–160. JSTOR 30028405.
- ^ Isoko language and alphabet – Omniglot
External links
- Audio recordings available in ISOKO
- Voiced labiodental fricatives or glides - all the same to Germans?
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