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Eruwa language

Ẹrụwa
Native to Nigeria
Region Delta State
Native speakers
64,000 (2004)
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3
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:



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