Cross River language spoken in Nigeria
Mbembe is a Cross River language of Nigeria . Odut ,[ 2] a divergent variety spoken in a village far South of the rest of Mbembe, had 20 speakers in 1980 and may be extinct.[ 3]
Phonology
Consonants
Vowels
Phoneme/Sound
Allophones
Occurrence
/i/ [i]
[ɨ]
in closed syllables except when following /j/ or palatalized consonants
[ɪ]
in closed syllables when following /j/ or palatalized consonants
[i]
elsewhere
/u/ [u]
[u̟]
in closed syllables except when following /w/ or labialized consonants
[ʊ]
in extended syllable-pieces except when following /w/ or labialized consonants
[u]
elsewhere
[ 4]
References
^ Mbembe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Odut village at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Blench (2013) An Atlas of Nigerian Languages
^ "Odut" . Ethnologue . Retrieved 2017-07-26 .
^ Barnwell, Katherine Grace Lowry (1969). A Grammatical Description of Mbembe (Adun Dialect)- A cross river language . University College London.
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