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Urhobo language

Ukwuani is a Southwestern Igbo language spoken by the Urhobo people of southern Nigeria. It is spoken in Delta and Bayelsa States.[failed verification]

Urhobo has a rather reduced system of sound inventory compared to proto-Edoid. The inventory of Urhobo consists of seven vowels; which form two harmonic sets, /i e ɛ a o ɔ u/ and ɛ̃ ã ɔ̃ õ ũ/.

It has a conservative consonant inventory for an Edoid language. It maintains three nasals, and only five oral consonants, /ɾ, l, β̞, j, w/, have nasal allophones before nasal vowels.

According to Anthony Ukere, Urhobo has two tones, a high tone and a low tone. These can also combine to form rising and falling tones. Rose Aziza is a professor of linguistics who does work on the phonology of Urhobo.

Urhobo has the subject–verb–object (SVO) constituent word order as illustrated with the example below:

Òtítí

Otiti

ò

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