Eruwa language
{{Short description|Edoid language of Nigeria}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Ẹrụwa
|region=Delta State
|states=Nigeria
|speakers=850
|date=2018
|ref=e25
|familycolor=Niger-Congo
|fam2=Atlantic–Congo
|fam3=Volta–Niger
|fam4={{sm|yeai}}
|fam5=Edoid
|fam6=Southwestern
|iso3=erh
|glotto=eruw1238
|glottorefname=Eruwa
}}
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, {{IPA|/i e a o u/}} and {{IPA|/ɪ ɛ a ɔ ʊ/}}.Archangeli & Pulleyblank, 1994. Grounded phonology, p 181ff
The language arguably has no phonemic nasal stops; {{IPA|[m, n]}} alternate with {{IPA|[b, l]}}, depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. The approximants {{IPA|/ʋ, ɹ, j, w/}} also have nasal allophones. The inventory is: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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| Plosive
| align=center | {{IPA link|p}} {{IPA link|b}} {{IPAblink|m}} | align=center | {{IPA link|t}} {{IPA link|d}} | | align=center | {{IPA link|k}} {{IPA link|ɡ}} | align=center | {{IPA link|k͡p}} {{IPA link|ɡ͡b}} | |
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| Fricative
| align=center | {{IPA link|f}} {{IPA link|v}} | align=center | {{IPA link|s}} {{IPA link|z}} | | align=center | {{IPA link|x}} {{IPA link|ɣ}} | | align=center | {{IPA link|h}} |
| rowspan=2|Approximant
| | align=center | {{IPA link|l}} {{IPAblink|n}} | | | | |
| align=center| {{IPA link|ʋ}}
| align=center| {{IPA link|ɹ}} | align=center| {{IPA link|j}} | | align=center| {{IPA link|w}} | |