| Jur Modo | |
| States: | South Sudan |
| Ethnicity: | Jur Modo |
| Speakers: | 180,000 |
| Date: | 2017 |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | Nilo-Saharan |
| Fam2: | Central Sudanic |
| Fam3: | Bongo–Bagirmi |
| Fam4: | Bongo–Baka |
| Iso3: | bex |
| Glotto: | jurm1239 |
| Glottorefname: | Jur Modo |
| Notice: | IPA |
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.
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i pronounced as //ɪ//, ï pronounced as //i// | u pronounced as //u//, o pronounced as //ʊ// | ||
| Mid | e pronounced as //ɛ//, ë pronounced as //e// | ö pronounced as //ɵ// | ɔ pronounced as //ɔ// | |
| Open | a pronounced as //a// |
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labial-velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m pronounced as //m// | n pronounced as //n// | ny pronounced as //ɲ// | ŋ pronounced as //ŋ// | ŋm pronounced as //ŋ͡m// | |||
| Plosive | prenasal | mb pronounced as //m͡b// | nd pronounced as //n͡d// | nj pronounced as //ɲ͡ɟ// | ŋg pronounced as //ŋ͡ɡ// | ŋb pronounced as //ŋ͡b// | ||
| voiced | b pronounced as //b// | d pronounced as //d// | j pronounced as //ɟ// | g pronounced as //ɡ// | gb pronounced as //ɡ͡b// | |||
| voiceless | p pronounced as //p// | t pronounced as //t// | c pronounced as //c// | k pronounced as //k// | kp pronounced as //k͡p// | ʾ pronounced as //ʔ// | ||
| implosive | ʾb pronounced as //ɓ// | ʾd pronounced as //ɗ// | ʾj pronounced as //ʄ// | |||||
| Fricative | prenasal | nz pronounced as //n͡z// | ||||||
| voiced | (v pronounced as //v//) | z pronounced as //z// | ||||||
| voiceless | f pronounced as //f// | s pronounced as //s// | h pronounced as //h// | |||||
| r pronounced as //r// | ||||||||
| l pronounced as //l// | ||||||||
| w pronounced as //w// | y pronounced as //j// | |||||||