Epie | |
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Native to | Nigeria |
Region | Bayelsa state |
Native speakers | 140,000 (2021) [1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
epi |
Glottolog |
epie1238 |
Epie (or Epie–Atịsa) is a language spoken in Nigeria by the Epie–Atissa people.
The language has a partially reduced system, compared to proto-Edoid, of eight vowels; these form two harmonic sets, /i e a o u/ and /i ɛ a ɔ ʊ/. [2]
Epie has only one clearly phonemic nasal stop, /m/; [n] alternates with [l], depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. (The other approximants, /j ɣ w/, are also nasalized in this position: see Edo language for a similar situation.) The inventory is: [3]
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio-velar | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | m | ||||
Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | |||
Plosive | p b | t d | k ɡ | k͡p ɡ͡b | |
Fricative | f v | s z | |||
Trill | (r) | ||||
Approximant | l [n] | j | ɣ | w |
Epie | |
---|---|
Native to | Nigeria |
Region | Bayelsa state |
Native speakers | 140,000 (2021) [1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
epi |
Glottolog |
epie1238 |
Epie (or Epie–Atịsa) is a language spoken in Nigeria by the Epie–Atissa people.
The language has a partially reduced system, compared to proto-Edoid, of eight vowels; these form two harmonic sets, /i e a o u/ and /i ɛ a ɔ ʊ/. [2]
Epie has only one clearly phonemic nasal stop, /m/; [n] alternates with [l], depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. (The other approximants, /j ɣ w/, are also nasalized in this position: see Edo language for a similar situation.) The inventory is: [3]
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio-velar | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | m | ||||
Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | |||
Plosive | p b | t d | k ɡ | k͡p ɡ͡b | |
Fricative | f v | s z | |||
Trill | (r) | ||||
Approximant | l [n] | j | ɣ | w |