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.
| Jur Modo | |
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| Native to | South Sudan |
| Ethnicity | Jur Modo |
Native speakers | 100,000 (2004)[1] |
Language family | Nilo-Saharan?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bex |
| Glottolog | jurm1239 |
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| Front | Central | Back | |
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| Close | i /i/, ï /-/ | u /u/ | |
| Mid | e /e/, ë /-/ | ö /-/ o /o/ | |
| Open | a /a/ | ɔ /ɔ/ |
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labial-velar | Glottal | ||
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| 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 /ɡ/ | 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 /r/ | ||||||
| Lateral | l /l/ | ||||||
| Semivowel | w /w/ | y /j/ | |||||
Languages of South Sudan | |
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| Official language | |
| Indigenous languages | |
| Immigrant languages | |
Central Sudanic languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Part of the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bongo–Bagirmi |
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| Birri–Kresh |
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| Lendu–Mangbetu |
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| Mimi-D | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italics indicate extinct languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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