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Epie language

Volta–Niger language of Nigeria From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Epie (or Epie–Atịsa) is part of Delta Edoid languages spoken in Nigeria by the Epie–Atissa people.

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Phonology

The language has a partially reduced system, compared to proto-Edoid, of eight vowels; these form two harmonic sets, /i e a o u/ and /i ɛ a ɔ ʊ/.[2]

Epie has only one clearly phonemic nasal stop, /m/; [n] alternates with [l], depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. (The other approximants, /j ɣ w/, are also nasalized in this position: see Edo language for a similar situation.) The inventory is:[3]

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