Oku (Ebkuo, Ekpwo, Ukfwo, Bvukoo, Kuɔ) is a
Grassfields Bantoid language that is primarily spoken by the Oku people of northwest
Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...
, a fondom of the
Tikar people.
[Moffor, Tikere. “The Making of Fons Kings: An Insight into the Regalia of a Newly Crowned Cameroon Grassfields Fon.” (2022).] They are a different ethnic group from the
Oku people
The Oku people or the Aku Marabout or Aku Mohammedans are an ethnic group in Sierra Leone and the Gambia, primarily the descendants of marabout, liberated Yoruba people who were released from slave ships and resettled in Sierra Leone as Libera ...
of Sierra Leone.
Phonology
Consonants
Oku has 21 consonant phonemes.
The consonant phoneme inventory of the language is shown below.
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Orthography
The Oku alphabet has 25 letters.
References
External links
Oku Verb Morphology: Tense Aspect and Mood
Information about the structure of the Oku language
Oku - English Provisional Lexicon
An alphabetical list of words in the Oku language
Ring languages
Languages of Cameroon
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