Epie language
Epie (or Epie-Atissa) is a language spoken in Nigeria by the Epie-Atissa people. Phonology. The language has a partially reduced system, compared to proto-Edoid, of eight vowels; these form two harmonic sets, and . Epie has only one clearly phonemic nasal stop, ; alternates with , depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. (The other approximants, , are also nasalized in this position: see Edo language for a similar situation.) The inventory is: