About Chaurasia
Hanßon (1991) classifies Wambule (‘Umbule’) and Jero (‘Jerung’) as members of the Western group of Kiranti languages. He points out that the differences in phonology and lexicon between Wambule and Jero plead in favour of a definition of the latter as a language of its own. The Wambule and Jero communities also insist on differentiating between two distinct groups, but they acknowledge the intimate relationship between their ethnicities and speeches.
The present comparative study discusses a number of major phonological and morphological features of Wambule and Jero, The data presented here show that Wambule and Jero are very closely related. The vast number of phonological and morphological similarities, in addition to the fact that the two speeches are mutually intelligible, plead in favour of the view that Wambule and Jero constitute two separate sets of dialects of a single language, which may well be called ‘Chaurasia’.