Velar fricatives can vary from being heard as to lowered fricatives and approximants . can also be heard as a palatal fricative before .
* Rhotics may have different realizations as alveolar or retroflex, and can be articulated as approximants , or taps . A retroflex lateral flap can also be heard in syllable-final position.

According to Anthony Ukere, Urhobo has two tones, a high tone and a low tone. These can also combine to form rising and falling tones. Rose Aziza is a professor of linguistics