| Ẹrụwa | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Delta State |
| Native speakers | 850 (2018) |
| Language family | Niger–Congo?
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| 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/.
The language arguably has no phonemic nasal stops; alternate with , depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. The approximants /ʋ, ɹ, j, w/ also have nasal allophones. The inventory is:
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio-velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p b | t d | k ɡ | k͡p ɡ͡b | ||
| Fricative | f v | s z | x ɣ | h | ||
| Approximant | l | |||||
| ʋ | ɹ | j | w |
References
- Ẹrụwa at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- 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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| Edoid |
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