Ukue 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 sibilants. The inventory is:

(*See Edo for a likely interpretation of the two rhotics.)