Uvbie language
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Uvbie (Uvwie, Evrie, or Evhro) is an Edoid language of Nigeria spoken by the Urhobo people.
Phonology
The Uvbie vowel system is hardly reduced from that reconstructed for proto-Edoid. There are nine vowels in two harmonic sets, /i e a o u/ and /ɪ ɛ a ɔ ʊ/.[3]
The consonant system is also conservative, and nearly the same as that of Urhobo. The only significant differences are the loss of ɸ, ɣ, and of the distinction between l and n: these alternate, depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. /ɾ, ʋ, j, w/ also have nasal allophones before nasal vowels.
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio-velar | Glottal | |
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Nasal | m | ɲ | ||||
Plosive | p b | t d | c ɟ | k ɡ | k͡p ɡ͡b | |
Fricative | f v | s z | ʃ dʒ | h | ||
Trill | r | |||||
Flap | ɾ | |||||
Approximant | ʋ | l [n] | j | w |
References
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- ↑ Uvbie at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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- ↑ Archangeli & Pulleyblank, 1994. Grounded phonology, p 181ff