Eleme language

Eleme
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Ogoni, Rivers State
Native speakers	190,884. (2006)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Cross River Ogoni West Ogoni Eleme
Language codes
ISO 639-3	elm
Glottolog	elem1253

Eleme is one of the 5 Ogoni languages and spoken by the Eleme people. The other Ogoni languages includes Khana; Tee; Gokana and Baan.

A unique feature of Eleme is that it uses reduplication to negate verbs.

Writing System

Eleme alphabet (2011)

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⟩.