Region Nigeria Native speakers 420,000 (2001) Glottolog isok1239 | Ethnicity Isoko ISO 639-3 iso | |
Language family Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Volta–Niger
yeai
Edoid
Southwestern
Isoko | ||
The Isoko language is spoken in the Southern Part of Nigeria precisely in Delta State Nigeria, by the Isoko people. It is regarded as a dialect of the neighbouring Urhobo language.
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.
Phonology
The Isoko vowel system is hardly reduced from that reconstructed for proto-Edoid. There are nine vowels in two harmonic sets, /i e a o u/ and /ɪ ɛ a ɔ ʊ/.
References
Isoko language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA