Urhobo language

Urhobo
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Delta and Bayelsa State
Ethnicity	Urhobo people
Native speakers	550,000 (1993)
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Volta–Niger yeai Edoid Southwestern Urhobo
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	urho1239
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Urhobo is one of the Edoid languages and is spoken by the Urhobo people of southern Nigeria.

Urhobo 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/.

It has a conservative consonant inventory for an Edoid language. It maintains three nasals, and only five oral consonants, /ɺ, l, ʋ, j, w/, have nasal allophones before nasal vowels.

Temu: A substance or person reaching a position or status respectively.

Urhobo dictionaries have been compiled by Ukere, Osubele, Ebireri Okrokoto of Urhobo Language Institute, and Julius Arerierian. A multilingual dictionary of English, Okpe, Urhobo and Uvwie was compiled by Akpobọmẹ Diffrẹ-Odiete with funding from Foundation for Endangered Languages.

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