Ehuẹun (Ekpimi) is an
Edoid language of
Ondo State
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,
Nigeria
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. 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, and .
The language arguably has no phonemic nasal stops; alternate with , depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. The inventory is:
The two
rhotics
In phonetics, rhotic consonants, or "R-like" sounds, are liquid consonants that are traditionally represented orthographically by symbols derived from the Greek letter rho, including , in the Latin script and , in the Cyrillic script. They ...
have been described as voiced and voiceless trills. However, Ladefoged
found both to be approximants, with the pair being
raised (without being fricatives) but not trills.
References
Edoid languages
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