Isoko language
| Isoko | |
|---|---|
| Region | Nigeria |
| Ethnicity | Isoko |
Native speakers | 420,000 (2001)[1] |
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Niger–Congo
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
iso |
| Glottolog |
isok1239[2] |
The Isoko language is spoken by the Isoko people in the Niger Delta of Southern Nigeria; specifically in regions of Delta and Bayelsa States. The Isoko and Urhobo languages are essentially dialects of the same language. However, the source dialect is a matter of dispute. Nevertheless, both dialects are derivatives of the Edoid language group.
Michael A. Marioghae, working with Peter Ladefoged in 1962, made one of a few audio recordings of sample Isoko words that are made available at the UCLA phonetics archive.[3]
Phonology
The Isoko vowel system is hardly reduced from that reconstructed for proto-Edoid. There are nine vowels in two harmonic sets, /i e a o u/ and /ɪ ɛ a ɔ ʊ/.[4]
References
- ↑ Isoko at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Isoko". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Isoko audio word-list
- ↑ Archangeli & Pulleyblank, 1994. Grounded phonology, p 181ff
External links
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Isoko language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
- Audio recordings available in ISOKO
- Voiced labiodental fricatives or glides - all the same to Germans?
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