Ivbiosakon language
Ivbiosakon | |
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Aoma | |
Native to | Nigeria |
Region | Edo State |
Native speakers | (100,000 cited 1987)[1] |
Niger–Congo
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
ema – inclusive codeIndividual code: ihi – Ihievbe |
Glottolog |
emai1241 [2] |
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, /i e a o u/ and /i ɛ a ɔ u/.[3]
It has only one clearly phonemic nasal stop, /m/; [n] alternates with [l], depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. (The other approximants, /ɹ j w h/, are also nasalized in this position: see Edo language for a similar situation.) The inventory is:[4]
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
- ↑ Ivbiosakon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Ihievbe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Emai-Iuleha-Ora". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ 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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