• Source: Epie language

Epie (or Epie–Atịsa) is an Ijaw language spoken in Nigeria by the Epie–Atissa people.




Phonology


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/.
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:




References






Further reading


Thomas, Elaine and Kay Williamson. 1967. "Wordlists of delta Edo: Epie, Engenni, Degema." In Occasional Papers 8, p. 105. Accra: Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan.

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• Epie language
• Epie
• Epie–Atissa people
• Epie-Atissa
• Gilles Epié
• Edoid languages
• Languages of Nigeria
• Yenagoa
• South South
• Isoko people