Eleme language
Eleme is one of the 5 Ogoni languages and spoken by the Eleme people. The other Ogoni languages includes Khana; Tee; Gokana and Baan.
| Eleme | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Ogoni, Rivers State |
Native speakers | 190,884. (2006)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | elm |
| Glottolog | elem1253 |
A unique feature of Eleme is that it uses reduplication to negate verbs.[2]
Writing System
| a | b | ch | d | e | ɛ | f | g | gb | gw | h | i | j | k | kp | kw | l | m | n | nw | ny | o | ɔ | p | r | s | t | u | w | y | ʼ |
Nasal vowels are indicated with a tilde ⟨ã ɛ̃ ĩ ɔ̃ ũ⟩.
References
- Eleme at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Harrison, K. David. (2007). When languages die : the extinction of the world's languages and the erosion of human knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-19-518192-0. OCLC 65425996.
- Eyi Ngulube 2011.
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Eleme language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
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