EURPhon: Jèrriais (Eastern Jersey)

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Romance

Lat/lon: 49.2, -2.05

ISO code: nrf

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-dental	dental	alveolar	postalveolar	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	p, b			t, d			k, g
trill				r
fricative		f, v	ð	s, z	ʃ, ʒ			h
affricate					tʃ, dʒ
nasal	m			n		ɲ	ŋ
approximant						j
lateral approximant				l

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	back
close	i	u
near-close	ʏ
close-mid		o
open-mid	ɛ, œ
open		ɒ

Long series

	front	back
close	iː, yː	uː
open-mid	ɛː, œː
open		ɒː

Short nasalised series

	front	back
close-mid	ẽ	õ
open-mid	ɛ̃, œ̃
open		ɒ̃

Long nasalised series

	front	back
close-mid	ẽː	õː
open-mid	ɛ̃ː, œ̃ː
open		ɒ̃ː

Diphthongs

/ei̯/, /eːi̯/, /oːu̯/, /aːu̯/, /wo/, /wɔː/, /øy̯/, /øːy̯/, /ɒːi̯/

Licit initial clusters

pr, br, fr, vr, tr, dr, kr, gr, ʃr, pj, bj, fj, ky, gj, pl, gl, fl, bl, kl, ʒl, vj, sj, ʃj, mj, nj, sp, st, sk, sn, sl, sm, pt, mn, dʒv, gv, km, ʃl

Source: Spence, N.C.W. 1985. Phonologie descriptive des parlers jersiais : II. les voyelles [suite]. Revue de linguistique romane 49; Spence, N.C.W. 1987. Phonologie descriptive des parlers jersiais : II. les consonnes [suite]. Revue de linguistique romane 51.

Comments: /ŋ, wo, wɔː, øy̯, øːy̯, ɒːi̯/ are marginal. The list of onset clusters is hardly exhaustive.