Ukue (Epinmi) is an Edoid language of Ondo State, Nigeria. It is sometimes considered the same language as Ehuẹun.

Phonology

Ukue has a rather reduced system, compared to proto-Edoid, of seven vowels; these form two harmonic sets, and . The language arguably has no phonemic nasal stops; alternate with , depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. Unusually, it has fricatives but no

sibilant Sibilants are fricative consonants of higher amplitude and pitch, made by directing a stream of air with the tongue towards the teeth. Examples of sibilants are the consonants at the beginning of the English words ''sip'', ''zip'', ''ship'', and ...

s. The inventory is:Jeff Mielke, 2008. ''The emergence of distinctive features'', p 136''ff'';
also found in ''Variation and gradience in phonetics and phonology'', p 26''ff'' (*See

Edo Edo ( ja, , , "bay-entrance" or "estuary"), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo. Edo, formerly a ''jōkamachi'' (castle town) centered on Edo Castle located in Musashi Province, became the ''de facto'' capital of ...

for a likely interpretation of the two rhotics.)

References

Edoid languages {{VoltaNiger-lang-stub