Oku language
Oku | |
---|---|
Kuɔ | |
Native to | Cameroon |
Native speakers | 87,000 (from the 2005 census)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
oku |
Glottolog |
okuu1243 [2] |
Oku (Ebkuo, Ekpwo, Ukfwo, Bvukoo, Kuɔ) is a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon.
Phonology
Consonants
Oku has 21 consonant phonemes.[3] The consonant phoneme inventory of the language is shown below.[3]
Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stop | b |
t d |
k kw g ɡw | ||
Fricative | f |
s |
ɣ ɣw | ||
Affricate | tʃ dʒ |
||||
Nasal | m m • |
n N |
ŋ | ||
Lateral | l | ||||
Glide | y | w |
Orthography
The Oku alphabet has 25 letters.[4]
a | b | ch | d | dz | e | ɛ | ə | f | g | gh | i | j | k | l | m | n | ŋ | o | p | s | t | w | y | z |
References
- ↑ Oku at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Oku (Cameroon)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 1 2 "Oku Verb Morphology: Tense Aspect and Mood" (PDF). pubman.mpdl.mpg.de. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
- ↑ Blood & Davis 1999.
External links
- Oku Verb Morphology: Tense Aspect and Mood Information about the structure of the Oku language
- Oku - English Provisional Lexicon An alphabetical list of words in the Oku language
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