Jebero language
Jebero is a moribund Amazonian language spoken by the Jebero people of Jeberos, Peru. It is spoken by only a small number of older adults and belongs to the Cahuapanan family together with Chayahuita.
Phonology
Vowels
Image:Jebero monophthongs chart.svg|thumb|upright=1.13|Monophthongs of Jebero, from| Front | Central | Back | |
| Close | |||
| Mid | |||
| Open |
- varies between close front unrounded, near-close front unrounded and close-mid front unrounded.
- varies between near-close near-front rounded and close-mid back weakly rounded, with the latter realization being the most usual.
- varies between mid near-front unrounded and close-mid central unrounded.
- * is shorter than the other vowels, particularly between voiceless consonants.
- * The sequence is sometimes realized as a syllabic.
- varies between open central unrounded and near-open retracted front. The vowel chart in puts in the near-open central position.
- * In closed syllables, is realized as open-mid central unrounded.
Consonants
- are bilabial, whereas is Labialized [velar consonant|labialized velar].
- is an affricate, rather than a plosive. It has nevertheless been placed in the table in that manner to save space.
- are laminal denti-alveolar.
- * In the syllable coda, is realized with a wider contact, maximally dentoalveolo-velar.
- * After, the denti-alveolar contact is often not made, which makes sound more like a velar nasal.
- * may sometimes sound as if it were a lateral consonant, but it is never realized as lateral.
- are dentoalveolo-palatal.
- * is sometimes realized as a weak fricative.
- occurs only in the affirmative interjection.
- is realized as a flap in the syllable onset and as a trill in the syllable coda.
- is a glottalized flap. Intervocalically, it is realized as a sequence.