Native speakers 550,000 (1993) | Ethnicity Urhobo people ISO 639-3 urh | |
Language family Niger–CongoAtlantic–CongoVolta–NigeryeaiEdoidSouthwesternUrhobo | ||
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Urhobo is one of the Edoid languages and is spoken by the Urhobo people of southern Nigeria.
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Phonology
Urhobo 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/.
It has a conservative consonant inventory for an Edoid language. It maintains three nasals, and only five oral consonants, /ɺ, l, ʋ, j, w/, have nasal allophones before nasal vowels.
Examples
Temu: A substance or person reaching a position or status respectively.
Dictionaries
Urhobo dictionaries have been compiled by Ukere, Osubele, Ebireri Okrokoto of Urhobo Language Institute, and Julius Arerierian. A multilingual dictionary of English, Okpe, Urhobo and Uvwie was compiled by Akpobọmẹ Diffrẹ-Odiete with funding from Foundation for Endangered Languages.