| Summary: | Jero, also referred to as ‘Jerung’, ‘Jerum’, ‘Zero’, ‘Zerum’, and ‘Jerunge’, is a
Kiranti language spoken in Okhla hu ag and Sindhul districts in eastern Nepal.
The most recent population census (2001) reports only 271 speakers of Jero.
Despite the small speech community, there are two dialects identified by
Opgenort, namely that of Mohant re or that of mbot e. Amongst the Kiranti
languages, Jero’s closest relative is Wambule, spoken just east of the Jero
language area. The assumption of a particularly close relationship between Jero
and Wambule was noted in Hansson (1991) and appears to be so close that
Opgenort appeals some to ethnolinguistics in order to assert that Jero and
Wambule are different languages.
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