Urhobo language


Urhobo is a South-Western Edoid language spoken by the Urhobo people of southern Nigeria.

Phonology

Urhobo has a rather reduced system of sound inventory compared to proto-Edoid. The inventory of Urhobo consists of seven vowels; which form two harmonic sets, and.
It has a conservative consonant inventory for an Edoid language. It maintains three nasals, and only five oral consonants,, have nasal allophones before nasal vowels.
LabialLabiodentalAlveolarPalatalVelarLabio-velarGlottal
Nasal
Plosive
Fricative
Trill
Flap
Approximant

Dictionaries

Urhobo dictionaries have been compiled by Ukere, Osubele, Ebireri Okrokoto of , and Julius Arerierian.. A wordlist of Nouns and verbs of Okpe, Urhobo and Uvwie was compiled by Akpobọmẹ Diffrẹ-Odiete with funding from Foundation for Endangered Languages.

Syntax

Urhobo has the SVO constituent order type as illustrated with the example below:
Òtítí ò chó ọhọ ná
Otiti 3SG steal.PST hen DET
‘Otiti stole the hen.’