Ivbiosakon, Emai-Iuleha-Ora, Kunibum, or Aoma, is an Edoid language of Edo State, Nigeria.
According to the Glottolog entry, Ihievbe is also a part of the Emai-Iuleha-Ora language despite having a separate ISO 639-3 code ihi.
Phonology Aoma dialect has a rather reduced system, compared to proto-Edoid, of seven vowels; these form two harmonic sets, and .Archangeli & Pulleyblank, 1994. Grounded phonology, p 181ff
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 for a similar situation.) The inventory is:Jeff Mielke, 2008. The emergence of distinctive features, p 136ff;also found in Variation and gradience in phonetics and phonology, p 26ff
LabialAlveolarPalatalVelarLabio-velarGlottalNasal Plosive Fricative Trill Approximant
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