Eruwa language

Ẹrụwa is an Edoid language of Nigeria.

Ẹrụwa
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Delta State
Native speakers	850 (2018)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta–Niger yeai Edoid Southwestern Ẹrụwa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	erh
Glottolog	eruw1238
ELP	Erohwa

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]
	ʋ	ɹ	j		w

References

1. Ẹrụwa at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
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