Ukue language
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Ukue (Epinmi) is an Edoid language of Ondo State, Nigeria. It is sometimes considered the same language as Ehuẹun.
Phonology
Ukue has a rather reduced system, compared to proto-Edoid, of seven vowels; these form two harmonic sets, Script error: No such module "IPA". and Script error: No such module "IPA"..[2]
The language arguably has no phonemic nasal stops; Script error: No such module "IPA". alternate with Script error: No such module "IPA"., depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. Unusually, it has fricatives but no sibilants. The inventory is:[3]
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio-velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | b | t̪ d̪ | t d | k ɡ | k͡p ɡ͡b | ||
| Fricative | f v | h | |||||
| Rhotic* | r̝ | ||||||
| r | |||||||
| Approximant | β [m] | l [n] | j | w |
(*See Edo for a likely interpretation of the two rhotics.)
References
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- ^ Ukue at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Archangeli & Pulleyblank, 1994. Grounded phonology, p 181ff
- ^ Jeff Mielke, 2008. The emergence of distinctive features, p 136ff;
also found in Variation and gradience in phonetics and phonology, p 26ff
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