Ukue language

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, and .Archangeli & Pulleyblank, 1994. Grounded phonology, p 181ff

The language arguably has no phonemic nasal stops; alternate with , depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. Unusually, it has fricatives but no sibilants. The inventory is:Jeff Mielke, 2008. The emergence of distinctive features, p 136ff;also found in Variation and gradience in phonetics and phonology, p 26ff

 LabialDentalAlveolarPalatalVelarLabio-velarGlottalPlosive                 Fricative      Rhotic*                    Approximant     (*See Edo for a likely interpretation of the two rhotics.)

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