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|name= Epie |region= Bayelsa state |states= Nigeria |speakers=90,000 |date=2016 |ref=e18 |familycolor=Niger-Congo |fam2=Atlantic–Congo |fam3=Volta–Niger |fam4={{sm|yeai}} |fam5=Edoid |fam6=Delta |iso3=epi |glotto=epie1238 |glottorefname=Epie }} Epie (or Epie-Atissa) is a language spoken in Nigeria by the Epie-Atissa people. PhonologyThe language has a partially reduced system, compared to proto-Edoid, of eight vowels; these form two harmonic sets, {{IPA|/i e a o u/}} and {{IPA|/i ɛ a ɔ ʊ/}}.[1] Epie has only one clearly phonemic nasal stop, {{IPA|/m/}}; {{IPA|[n]}} alternates with {{IPA|[l]}}, depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. (The other approximants, {{IPA|/j ɣ w/}}, are also nasalized in this position: see Edo language for a similar situation.) The inventory is:[2]
References1. ^Archangeli & Pulleyblank, 1994. Grounded phonology, p 181ff 2. ^Jeff Mielke, 2008. The emergence of distinctive features, p 136ff; also found in Variation and gradience in phonetics and phonology, p 26ff Further reading
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