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, and .Archangeli & Pulleyblank, 1994. Grounded phonology, p 181ff
The language arguably has no phonemic nasal stops; alternate with , depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. The approximants 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
LabialAlveolarPalatalVelarLabio-velarGlottalPlosive Fricative Approximant
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