Ora language
| Ivbiosakon | |
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| Aoma | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Edo State |
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Native speakers
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(100,000 cited 1987) |
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Niger–Congo
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Individual code: |
| Glottolog | emai1241 |
Ivbiosakon, or Aoma, is an Edoid language of Edo State, Nigeria. The dialect names Ora and Emai are also used for the language.
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:
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