Jero

Language name and location: Jerung (Jero), Nepal [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 杰龙语, 尼泊尔

1. kɔʔlo_a ~ kɔʔl_a ~ kwal_m

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Jean Robert Opgenort, Department of Linguistics, University of Berne, Switzerland, July 7, 2013. Reference sourceː Jean Robert Opgenort, "A Grammar of Jero" 2005, Leiden, Netherlands, Bril

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Jean Robert Opgenort, 2013 年 7 月 7 日.

Other comments: With the general exception of the word for ‘one’, the Jero numerals

are loans from Nepali. The following are the numerals ‘one’ to ‘five’:

kɔʔlo_a ~ kɔʔl_a ~ kwal_m ‘one’
dui_am ‘two’ (<Nep. duī)

tin_am ‘three’ (<Nep. tīn)

car_am ‘four’ (<Nep. cār)

pãc_am ‘five’ (<Nep. pã̄c)

As in Nepali, Jero requires under certain circumstances the use of numeral classifiers with all the numerals except the native numeral for ‘one’. The two loan classifiers are selected by the noun on the basis of semantic correlation.

jʌna_am ~ jʌn_m human classifier

gɔʈa_am ~ gɔʈa_a non-human classifier

   Human referents generally select the human classifier, which is a loan from Nepali
   anā ‘person’. Non-human referents require the nonhuman classifier, which is a loan
   from vat̩ā ‘piece, article’. The nonhuman classifier may also be used in relation to

human referents.

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