Okpe language (Southwestern Edo)

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

Not to be confused with Okpe language (Northwestern Edo).
Okpe
Native toNigeria
RegionDelta State
EthnicityUrhobo
Native speakers
25,000 (2000)[1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3oke – inclusive code
Individual code:
ids – Idesa
Glottologokpe1250[2]

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, /i e ɛ a ɔ o u/.[3] 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  
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gollark: ++list_deleted
gollark: ++delete the universe
gollark: ++delete "your face"
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References
  1. Okpe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Idesa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Okpe (Southwestern Edo)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Archangeli & Pulleyblank, 1994. Grounded phonology, p 181ff


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