Ehueun language
| Ehuẹun | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Ondo State |
Native speakers | 14,000 (2000)[1] |
|
Niger–Congo
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
ehu |
| Glottolog |
ehue1238[2] |
Ehuẹun (Ekpimi) is an Edoid language of Ondo State, Nigeria. It is sometimes considered the same language as Ukue.
Phonology
Ehuẹun 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/.[3]
The language arguably has no phonemic nasal stops; [m, n] alternate with [β, l], depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. The inventory is:[4]
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio-velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | b | t d | k ɡ | k͡p ɡ͡b | |||
| Fricative | ɸ β [m] | f v | s z | h | |||
| Rhotic* | r̝ r | ||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | l [n] | j | w |
(*See Edo for a likely interpretation of the two rhotics.)
References
- ↑ Ehuẹun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ehueun". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Archangeli & Pulleyblank, 1994. Grounded phonology, p 181ff
- ↑ Jeff Mielke, 2008. The emergence of distinctive features, p 136ff;
also found in Variation and gradience in phonetics and phonology, p 26ff
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 6/1/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.