Okpe is an Edoid language of Nigeria spoken by the Urhobo people.

Phonology

The sound system is rather conservative, and nearly the same as that of Urhobo. The vowels system is the same, and somewhat reduced compared to proto-Edoid: there are seven vowels, .Archangeli & Pulleyblank, 1994. ''Grounded phonology'', p 181''ff'' Of the consonants, only significant differences are the addition of and of the distinction between ''l'' vs ''n'' and ''y'' vs ''ny'': these alternate, depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. also have nasal

allophones In phonology, an allophone (; from the Greek , , 'other' and , , 'voice, sound') is a set of multiple possible spoken soundsor ''phones''or signs used to pronounce a single phoneme in a particular language. For example, in English, (as in ''s ...

before nasal vowels.

References

Edoid languages {{VoltaNiger-lang-stub