Eruwa language

Ẹrụwa
Native to Nigeria
Region Delta State
Native speakers
 64,000 (2004)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 erh
Glottolog eruw1238[2]

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/.[3]

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:[4]

  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 (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Eruwa". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Archangeli & Pulleyblank, 1994. Grounded phonology, p 181ff
  4. ↑ 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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