Epie (or Epie-Atissa) is a language spoken in
Nigeria
Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...
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, and .
Epie has only one clearly phonemic nasal stop, ; alternates with , depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. (The other approximants, , are also nasalized in this position: see
Edo language
Edo (with diacritics, ), colloquially called Bini (Benin), is a language spoken in Edo State, Nigeria. It is the native language of the Edo people and was the primary language of the Benin Empire and its predecessor, Igodomigodo. Distribution
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for a similar situation.) The inventory is:
[Jeff Mielke, 2008. ''The emergence of distinctive features'', p 136''ff'';]
also found in ''Variation and gradience in phonetics and phonology'', p 26''ff''
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.
Edoid languages
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