Eruwa language

Ẹrụwa
Ẹrụwa
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Delta State
Native speakers	64,000 (2004)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta–Niger yeai Edoid Southwestern Ẹrụwa; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	erh
Glottolog	eruw1238
ELP	Erohwa

Ẹrụwa is an Edoid language of Nigeria.

Phonology

The Ẹrụwa vowel system is hardly reduced from that reconstructed for proto-Edoid. There are nine vowels in two harmonic sets, /i e a o u/ and /ɪ ɛ a ɔ ʊ/.^[2]

The language arguably has no phonemic nasal stops; [m, n] alternate with [b, l], depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. The approximants /ʋ, ɹ, j, w/ also have nasal allophones. The inventory is:^[3]

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labio-velar	Glottal
Plosive	p b [m]	t d		k ɡ	k͡p ɡ͡b
Fricative	f v	s z		x ɣ		h
Approximant		l [n]
Approximant	ʋ	ɹ	j		w

References

^ Ẹrụwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Archangeli & Pulleyblank, 1994. Grounded phonology, p 181ff
^ Jeff Mielke, 2008. The emergence of distinctive features, p 136ff;
also found in Variation and gradience in phonetics and phonology, p 26ff

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[e18-1] Ẹrụwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Archangeli & Pulleyblank, 1994. Grounded phonology, p 181ff

[3] Jeff Mielke, 2008. The emergence of distinctive features, p 136ff;
also found in Variation and gradience in phonetics and phonology, p 26ff

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