Native speakers 14,000 (2000) Glottolog ukue1238 | ISO 639-3 uku | |
Language family Niger–CongoAtlantic–CongoVolta–NigeryeaiEdoidNorthwesternOsse RiverUkue | ||
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, /i e a o u/ and /i ɛ a ɔ u/.
The language arguably has no phonemic nasal stops; [m, n] alternate with [β, l], depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. Unusually, it has fricatives but no sibilants. The inventory is:
(*See Edo for a likely interpretation of the two rhotics.)
References
Ukue language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA