Oku language

Oku (Ebkuo, Ekpwo, Ukfwo, Bvukoo, Kuɔ) is a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon.

Oku
Kuɔ
Native toCameroon
Native speakers
87,000 (from the 2005 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3oku
Glottologokuu1243

Phonology

Consonants

Oku has 21 consonant phonemes.[2] The consonant phoneme inventory of the language is shown below.[2]

Bilabial Labiodental Alveolar Palatal Velar
Stop
b
t
d
k  kw
g  ɡw
Fricative f
 
s
 

ɣ  ɣw
Affricate
Nasal m
m
n
N
 
ŋ   
 
 
Lateral l
Glide y w

Orthography

The Oku alphabet has 25 letters.[3]

abchddz eɛəfg ghijkl mnŋop stwyz

References

  1. Oku at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. "Oku Verb Morphology: Tense Aspect and Mood" (PDF). pubman.mpdl.mpg.de. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  3. Blood & Davis 1999.


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