Uvbie language
| Uvbie | |
|---|---|
| Evrie | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Delta State |
| Ethnicity | Urhobo |
Native speakers | 20,000 (2000)[1] |
|
Niger–Congo
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
evh |
| Glottolog |
uvbi1238[2] |
Uvbie (Uvwie, Evrie, or Evhro) is an Edoid language of Nigeria spoken by the Urhobo people.
Phonology
The Uvbie vowel system is hardly reduced from that reconstructed for proto-Edoid. There are nine vowels in two harmonic sets, /i e a o u/ and /ɪ ɛ a ɔ ʊ/.[3]
The consonant system is also conservative, and nearly the same as that of Urhobo. The only significant differences are the loss of ɸ, ɣ, and of the distinction between l and n: these alternate, depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. /ɾ, ʋ, j, w/ also have nasal allophones before nasal vowels.
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio-velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | ɲ | ||||
| Plosive | p b | t d | c ɟ | k ɡ | k͡p ɡ͡b | |
| Fricative | f v | s z | ʃ dʒ | h | ||
| Trill | ɲ | |||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||
| Approximant | ʋ | l [n] | j | w |
References
- ↑ Uvbie at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Uvbie". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Archangeli & Pulleyblank, 1994. Grounded phonology, p 181ff
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