Ukue phonology

Ukue has a rather reduced system, compared to proto-Edoid, of seven vowels; these form two harmonic sets, /i e a o u/ and /i ɛ a ɔ u/.

		Close		Open
		High	Low	High	Low
Front		i	e	ɛ	æ
Central	unr.	ɨ	ɘ	ɜ	a
	rnd.	ʉ	ɵ	ɞ	ɶ
Back		u	o	ɔ	ɒ

The language arguably has no phonemic nasal stops; [m, n] alternate with [β, l], depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. Unusually, it has fricatives but no sibilants. The inventory is:

		Labial		Dental		Alveolar		Palatal		Velar		Labio-velar		Glottal
Plosive		p	b	t̪	d̪	t	d			k	ɡ	k͡p	ɡ͡b
Fricative		f	v							x	ɣ			h
Rhotic*	plain	ʙ̥	ʙ			r̥	r
	Fricative						r̝
Approximant	Central		β				ɹ		j		ɰ		w
	Lateral						l		ʎ		ʟ
Nasal			m				n				ŋ

External links

• Ukue language