Ivbiosakon language

Ivbiosakon
Aoma
Native to Nigeria
Region Edo State
Native speakers
 unknown (100,000 cited 1987)[1]
Dialects
Emai
Ora
Iuleha
Ivhimion
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ema
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
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

  1. ↑ Ivbiosakon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Emai-Iuleha-Ora". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Archangeli & Pulleyblank, 1994. Grounded phonology, p 181ff
  4. ↑ Jeff Mielke, 2008. The emergence of distinctive features, p 136ff;
    also found in Variation and gradience in phonetics and phonology, p 26ff


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, March 10, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.