Native speakers (100,000 cited 1987) | ||
Language family Niger–CongoAtlantic–CongoVolta–NigeryeaiEdoidNorth-CentralEdoIvbiosakon Dialects EmaiOraIulehaIvhimion?Ihievbe (Isewe) ISO 639-3 ema – inclusive codeIndividual code:ihi – Ihievbe | ||
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/.
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:
References
Ivbiosakon language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA