Native speakers 90,000 (2016) Glottolog epie1238 | Region Bayelsa state ISO 639-3 epi | |
Language family Niger–CongoAtlantic–CongoVolta–NigeryeaiEdoidDeltaEpie | ||
Epie (or Epie-Atissa) is a language spoken in Nigeria by the Epie-Atissa people.
Phonology
The language has a partially reduced system, compared to proto-Edoid, of eight vowels; these form two harmonic sets, /i e a o u/ and /i ɛ a ɔ ʊ/.
Epie has only one clearly phonemic nasal stop, /m/; [n] alternates with [l], depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. (The other approximants, /j ɣ w/, are also nasalized in this position: see Edo language for a similar situation.) The inventory is:
References
Epie language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA