Ivbiosakon Language
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Ivbiosakon, or Aoma, is an
Edoid language The Edoid languages are a few dozen languages spoken in southern Nigeria. Edoid-speaking ethnic groups are predominantly located in the States of Edo and Delta however, smaller Edoid-speaking communities are also present in the states of Ondo, ...
of
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,
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. 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, and . It has only one clearly phonemic nasal stop, ; alternates with , depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. (The other approximants, , are also nasalized in this position: see
Edo language Edo (; English: , West African English: Help:IPA, /ˈedo/), also known as Bini, is the language spoken by the Edo people in Edo State, Nigeria. It was the primary language of the Benin Empire and its predecessor, Igodomigodo for thousands of y ...
for a similar situation.) The inventory is:Jeff Mielke, 2008. ''The emergence of distinctive features'', p 136''ff'';
also found in ''Variation and gradience in phonetics and phonology'', p 26''ff''


References

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