Oku language

Oku (Ebkuo, Ekpwo, Ukfwo, Bvukoo, Kuɔ) is a Grassfields Bantoid language that is primarily spoken by the Oku people of northwest Cameroon, a fondom of the Tikar people.[2] They are a different ethnic group from the Oku people of Sierra Leone.

Oku
Kuɔ
Native toCameroon
Native speakers
87,000 (from the 2005 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3oku
Glottologokuu1243

Phonology

Consonants

Oku has 21 consonant phonemes.[3] The consonant phoneme inventory of the language is shown below.[3]

Bilabial Labiodental Alveolar Palatal Velar
Stop
b		 t
d		 k  kw
g  ɡw
Fricative f
 		 s
 
ɣ  ɣw
Affricate tʃ
dʒ
Nasal m
m
•		 n
N
 		 ŋ   
 
 
Lateral l
Glide y w

Orthography

The Oku alphabet has 25 letters.[4]

abchddz eɛəfg ghijkl mnŋop stwyz

References
  1. Oku at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Moffor, Tikere. “The Making of Fons Kings: An Insight into the Regalia of a Newly Crowned Cameroon Grassfields Fon.” (2022).
  3. "Oku Verb Morphology: Tense Aspect and Mood" (PDF). pubman.mpdl.mpg.de. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  4. Blood & Davis 1999.


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