EURPhon: Jero

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Kiranti

Lat/lon: 27.194392, 86.37043

ISO code: jee

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	alveolar	retroflex	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	p, pʰ, b, bʰ		t, tʰ, d, dʰ	ʈ, ʈʰ, ɖ, ɖʰ		k, kʰ, g, gʰ	ʔ
trill			r
fricative			s				h
affricate			ts, tsʰ, dz, dzʰ
nasal	m		n			ŋ
approximant		w			j
lateral approximant			l

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i		u
close-mid	e		o
open-mid	ɛ		ɔ, ʌ
open		a

Long series

	front	central	back
close	iː		uː
open		aː

Short nasalised series

	front	back
close	ĩ	ũ
open-mid	ɛ̃

Licit initial clusters

C{w,j}, {k,kʰ,g,p,pʰ,b}{l,r}

Licit syllabic templates

C{G,r,l}VC

Source: Jean Robert Opgenort. 2005. A Grammar of Jero With a Historical Comparative Study of the Kiranti Languages. Brill. xxvi, 406 pp.

Comments: “In indigenous Jero words, the use of retroflex or apico-postalveolar stops in place of alveolar stops is generally determined by personal style or preference.” (p. 61) “Affricate obstruents are not generally found in syllable-final position, except in loans from Nepali. The approximants /h/, /y/ and /w/ do not appear in syllable-final position.” (p. 60)