Jur Modo language

Jur Modo
Native to South Sudan
Ethnicity Jur Modo
Native speakers
100,000 (2004)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bex
Glottolog jurm1239[2]

Jur Modo, also known as Jur or Modo, is a Central Sudanic language spoken by the Jur Modo people of South Sudan. Dialects are Lori, Modo (Jur Modo, Modo Lali), Wira, Wetu. It is a tonal language.

Phonology

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close i /i/, ï /-/ u /u/
Mid e /e/, ë /-/ ö /-/ o /o/
Open a /a/ ɔ /ɔ/

Consonants

Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Labial-velar Glottal
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ ny /ɲ/ ŋ /ŋ/ ŋm /ŋ͡m/
Plosive prenasal mb /m͡b/ nd /n͡d/ nj /n͡ʤ/ ŋg /ŋ͡ɡ/ ŋb /ŋ͡b/
voiced b /b/ d /d/ j /d͡ʒ/ g /a/ gb /ɡ͡b/
voiceless p /p/ t /t/ c /t͡ʃ/ k /k/ kp /k͡p/ ʾ /ʔ/
implosive ʾb /ɓ/ ʾd /ɗ/ ʾj /ʔd͡ʒ/
Fricative prenasal nz /n͡z/
voiced z /z/
voiceless f /f/ s /s/ h /h/
Rhotic r /ɲ/
Lateral l /l/
Semivowel w /w/ y /j/

References

  1. Jur Modo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Jur Modo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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