| Ẹrụwa | |
| Region: | Delta State |
| States: | Nigeria |
| Speakers: | 850 |
| Date: | 2018 |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
| Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
| Fam3: | Volta–Niger |
| Fam5: | Edoid |
| Fam6: | Southwestern |
| Iso3: | erh |
| Glotto: | eruw1238 |
| Glottorefname: | Eruwa |
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, pronounced as //i e a o u// and pronounced as //ɪ ɛ a ɔ ʊ//.[1]
The language arguably has no phonemic nasal stops; pronounced as /[m, n]/ alternate with pronounced as /[b, l]/, depending on whether the following vowel is oral or nasal. The approximants pronounced as //ʋ, ɹ, j, w// also have nasal allophones. The inventory is:[2]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio-velar | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | align=center | pronounced as /p b [m]/ | align=center | pronounced as /t d/ | align=center | pronounced as /k ɡ/ | align=center | pronounced as /k͡p ɡ͡b/ | ||
| Fricative | align=center | pronounced as /f v/ | align=center | pronounced as /s z/ | align=center | pronounced as /x ɣ/ | align=center | pronounced as /h/ | ||
| Approximant | align=center | pronounced as /l [n]/ | ||||||||
| pronounced as /ʋ/ | pronounced as /ɹ/ | pronounced as /j/ | pronounced as /w/ |