Epie (or Epie–Atịsa) is part of Delta Edoid languages spoken in

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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 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''

Phonology

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