Isoko language
Edoid language spoken in Nigeria
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Isoko is an Edoid language, spoken by the Isoko people in the Isoko region of Delta State and Bayelsa. The Isoko language has about 20 to 21 dialects, but the Aviara/Uzere dialect is the standard dialect of the language.[citation needed]
RegionNigeria
EthnicityIsoko
Native speakers
680,000 (2020)[1]Niger–Congo?
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Atlantic–Congo
- Volta–Niger
- yeai
- Edoid
- Southwestern
- Isoko
- Southwestern
- Edoid
- yeai
- Volta–Niger
| Isoko | |
|---|---|
| Region | Nigeria |
| Ethnicity | Isoko |
Native speakers | 680,000 (2020)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | iso |
| Glottolog | isok1239 |
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.[2]
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Dental-Palatal | Alveolar | Palatal/Palato-alveolar | Velar | Labial–velar | Labiovelar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | (n̪) | n̪ɲ | n | (ɲ) | ŋʷ | |||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t̪ | (t̪c) | t | (c) | k | (kp) | |||
| voiced | b | d̪ | (d̪ɟ) | d | (ɟ) | ɡ | ɡb | (ɡʷ) | |||
| Implosive | voiceless | ƥ | |||||||||
| voiced | ɓ | ||||||||||
| Affricate | voiceless | (tʃ) | |||||||||
| voiced | dʒ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | (ɸ) | f | s | ʃ | (x) | ʍ ~ hʷ | h | |||
| voiced | v | z | ɣ | ɣʷ | |||||||
| breathy | v̤ | (z̤) | ɦ | ||||||||
| Approximant | central | ɹ | j | w | |||||||
| lateral | l | ||||||||||
| Tap | ɾ | ||||||||||
| Trill | r | ||||||||||
Consonants in parentheses occur in dialects other than Uzere.
According to Donwa-Ifode (1986), the following phonetic variations exist between dialects:
Vowels
Orthography
| A | B | D | E | Ẹ | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M |
| N | O | Ọ | P | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y | Z |
| CH | GB | GH | HW | KP | NW | NY | SH | TH | WH |
