Language family | Niger–Congo? - Atlantic–Congo
- Volta–Niger
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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/.[2] 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:[3] | | 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 - ^ Ẹrụwa at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
 - ^ Archangeli & Pulleyblank, 1994. Grounded phonology, p 181ff
- ^ 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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