Isoko language
| Isoko | |
|---|---|
| Region | Nigeria |
| Ethnicity | Isoko |
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Native speakers
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420,000 (2001) |
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Niger–Congo
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | isok1239 |
The Isoko language is spoken in the Southern Part of Nigeria precisely in Delta State Nigeria, by the Isoko people. It is regarded as a dialect of the neighbouring Urhobo language.
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.
The Isoko vowel system is hardly reduced from that reconstructed for proto-Edoid. There are nine vowels in two harmonic sets, /i e a o u/ and /ɪ ɛ a ɔ ʊ/.
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