Epie language

Epie (or Epie–Atịsa) 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: