Ẹrụwa | |
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Native to | Nigeria |
Region | Delta State |
Native speakers
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64,000 (2004) |
Niger–Congo
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
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Glottolog | eruw1238 |
Ẹrụwa is an Edoid language of Nigeria.
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: