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Okpe language (Southwestern Edo)

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Okpe
Native to Nigeria
Region Delta State
Ethnicity Urhobo
Native speakers
(25,000 cited 2000) [1]
Niger–Congo?
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Volta–Niger
      • yeai
Language codes
ISO 639-3 oke – inclusive code
Individual code:
ids  – Idesa
Glottolog okpe1250

Okpe is an Edoid language of Nigeria spoken by the Urhobo people.

Phonology

The sound system is rather conservative, and nearly the same as that of Urhobo. The vowels system is the same, and somewhat reduced compared to proto-Edoid: there are seven vowels, /ieɛaɔou/. [2] Of the consonants, only significant differences are the addition of /ɣʷ/ and of the distinction between l vs n and y vs ny: these alternate, depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. /ɾ,ʋ,w/ also have nasal allophones before nasal vowels.

  Labial Labiodental Alveolar Palatal Velar Labio-velar Glottal
Nasal m l [ n ] j [ ɲ ]   
Plosive p    b t    d c    ɟ k    ɡ k͡p    ɡ͡b  
Fricative ɸ    f    v s    z ɕ    ʑ    ɣ    ɣʷ h
Trill   r     
Flap   ɾ     
Approximant   ʋ l [ n ] j [ ɲ ]  w  

References

  1. ↑ Okpe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Idesa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ↑ Archangeli & Pulleyblank, 1994. Grounded phonology, p 181ff
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