Oku language

Oku
	Kuɔ
Native to	Cameroon
Native speakers	87,000 (from the 2005 census)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Grassfields Ring Center Oku; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	oku
Glottolog	okuu1243[2]

Oku (Ebkuo, Ekpwo, Ukfwo, Bvukoo, Kuɔ) is a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon.

Phonology

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

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

Oku at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Oku". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
"Oku Verb Morphology: Tense Aspect and Mood" (PDF). pubman.mpdl.mpg.de. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
Blood & Davis 1999.

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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