Ehuẹun | |
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Native to | Nigeria |
Region | Ondo State |
Native speakers
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14,000 (2000) |
Niger–Congo
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
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Glottolog | ehue1238 |
Ehuẹun (Ekpimi) is an Edoid language of Ondo State, Nigeria. It is sometimes considered the same language as Ukue.
Ehuẹun has a rather reduced system, compared to proto-Edoid, of seven vowels; these form two harmonic sets, /i e a o u/ and /i ɛ a ɔ u/.
The language arguably has no phonemic nasal stops; [m, n] alternate with [β, l], depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. The inventory is:
(*See Edo for a likely interpretation of the two rhotics.)