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Ukue (Epinmi) is an Edoid language of Ondo State, Nigeria. It is sometimes considered the same language as Ehuẹun. ==Phonology== Ukue has a rather reduced system, compared to proto-Edoid, of seven vowels; these form two harmonic sets, and .〔Archangeli & Pulleyblank, 1994. ''Grounded phonology'', p 181''ff''〕 The language arguably has no phonemic nasal stops; alternate with , depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. Unusually, it has fricatives but no sibilants. 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''〕 ( *See Edo for a likely interpretation of the two rhotics.) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ukue language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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