Ivbiosakon language
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| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Edo State |
Native speakers | (100,000 cited 1987)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
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| ISO 639-3 | ema – inclusive codeIndividual code: ihi – Ihievbe |
| Glottolog | emai1241 |
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Ivbiosakon, or Aoma, is an Edoid language of Edo State, Nigeria. The dialect names Ora and Emai are also used for the language.
Phonology
Aoma has a rather reduced system, compared to proto-Edoid, of seven vowels; these form two harmonic sets, Script error: No such module "IPA". and Script error: No such module "IPA"..[2]
It has only one clearly phonemic nasal stop, Script error: No such module "IPA".; Script error: No such module "IPA". alternates with Script error: No such module "IPA"., depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. (The other approximants, Script error: No such module "IPA"., are also nasalized in this position: see Edo language for a similar situation.) The inventory is:[3]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio-velar | Glottal | |
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| Nasal | m | l [n] | ||||
| Plosive | p b | t d | k ɡ | k͡p ɡ͡b | ||
| Fricative | f v | s z | x ɣ | |||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | w | h |
References
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- ^ Ivbiosakon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Ihievbe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ Archangeli & Pulleyblank, 1994. Grounded phonology, p 181ff
- ^ Jeff Mielke, 2008. The emergence of distinctive features, p 136ff;
also found in Variation and gradience in phonetics and phonology, p 26ff
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