Native speakers 64,000 (2004) Glottolog eruw1238 | ISO 639-3 erh | |
Language family Niger–CongoAtlantic–CongoVolta–NigeryeaiEdoidSouthwesternẸrụwa | ||
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; [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:
References
Eruwa language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA