Okpe language (Southwestern Edo) should not be confused with Okpe language (Northwestern Edo).
| Okpe | |
| Region: | Delta State |
| States: | Nigeria |
| Ethnicity: | Urhobo |
| Date: | 2000 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
| Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
| Fam3: | Volta–Niger |
| Fam5: | Edoid |
| Fam6: | Southwestern |
| Iso3: | oke |
| Lc1: | ids |
| Ld1: | Idesa |
| Glotto: | okpe1250 |
| Glottorefname: | Okpe (Southwestern Edo) |
Okpe is an Edoid language of Nigeria spoken by the Urhobo people.
The sound system is rather conservative, and nearly the same as that of Urhobo. The vowels system is the same, and somewhat reduced compared to proto-Edoid: there are seven vowels, pronounced as //i e ɛ a ɔ o u//.[1] Of the consonants, only significant differences are the addition of pronounced as //ɣʷ// and of the distinction between l vs n and y vs ny: these alternate, depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. pronounced as //ɾ, ʋ, w// also have nasal allophones before nasal vowels.
| Labial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio-velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | align=center | pronounced as /m/ | pronounced as /l [n]/ | pronounced as /j [ɲ]/ | ||||||||||
| Plosive | align=center | pronounced as /p b/ | align=center | pronounced as /t d/ | align=center | pronounced as /c ɟ/ | align=center | pronounced as /k ɡ/ | align=center | pronounced as /k͡p ɡ͡b/ | ||||
| Fricative | align=center | pronounced as /ɸ / | align=center | pronounced as /f v/ | align=center | pronounced as /s z/ | align=center | pronounced as /ɕ ʑ/ | align=center | pronounced as / ɣ/ | align=center | pronounced as / ɣʷ/ | align=center | pronounced as /h/ |
| Trill | align=center | pronounced as /r/ | ||||||||||||
| Flap | align=center | pronounced as /ɾ/ | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /ʋ/ | pronounced as /l [n]/ | pronounced as /j [ɲ]/ | pronounced as /w/ |