Oku language
| Oku | |
|---|---|
| Kuɔ | |
| Native to | Cameroon |
Native speakers | 87,000 (from the 2005 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | oku |
| Glottolog | okuu1243 |
Oku (Ebkuo, Ekpwo, Ukfwo, Bvukoo, Kuɔ) is a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon.
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 | tʃ dʒ |
||||
| Nasal | m m • |
n N |
ŋ | ||
| Lateral | l | ||||
| Glide | y | w |
Orthography
The Oku alphabet has 25 letters.[3]
| a | b | ch | d | dz | e | ɛ | ə | f | g | gh | i | j | k | l | m | n | ŋ | o | p | s | t | w | y | z |
References
- ^ Oku at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b "Oku Verb Morphology: Tense Aspect and Mood" (PDF). pubman.mpdl.mpg.de. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
- ^ Blood & Davis 1999.
External links
- Oku Verb Morphology: Tense Aspect and Mood Information about the structure of the Oku language
- Oku - English Provisional Lexicon An alphabetical list of words in the Oku language
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