Moro language

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For the East Kainji language of Nigeria, see Moro language (Nigeria).
Moro
Dhimorong
RegionNuba Hills, Sudan
EthnicityMoro Nuba
Native speakers
(30,000 cited 1982)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3mor
Glottologmoro1285
ELPMoro

Moro is a Niger–Congo language in the Heiban family spoken by the Moro people in the Nuba Mountains of Kordofan, Sudan.

Writing system[]

A Moro orthography was developed by Christian missionaries in 1936 and a New Testament using it was published in 1960. This early spelling did not use capital letters. A revised spelling using capital letters is used in the 1993 New Testament publication.[2]

Moro alphabet[2]
A B C D Ḏ Ꟈ E Ë Ə F G I J K L M N Ñ Ŋ O P R Ɽ S T Ṯ U W Y
a b c d ḏ ꟈ e ë ə f g i j k l m n ñ ŋ o p r ɽ s t ṯ u w y

Dialects[]

There are 7 dialects of Moro (Guest 1997a).[3] Ethnologue names are given in parentheses.[4]

  • Laiyənia or Layenia[5] (Laiyen)
  • Tobəɽelda or Thetogovela[6] (Toberelda, Umm Gabralla)
  • Uləba (Ulba)
  • Lənəbwa (Nubwa)
  • Nḏərria or Ndërria[5] (Nderre)
  • Ləmwarəŋ (Dhimorong; = Werria)
  • Ləŋorəban (Longorban, Umm Dorein)

Each dialect corresponds to a separate clan, except for Ləmwarəŋ and Ləŋorəban, which are amalgamated into a single clan known as the Wërria. Thus, there is a total of 6 different clans.

References[]

  1. ^ Moro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Guest 1997.
  3. ^ http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Niger-Congo/Kordofanian/Moro/guest_moro-phonology1997.pdf
  4. ^ "Moro".
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Blench, Roger. 2005. A dictionary of the Moro language of the Nuba hills, Sudan. m.s.
  6. ^ Moro Language Project

Further reading[]

  • Blench, Roger. 2005. A dictionary of the Moro language of the Nuba hills, Sudan. m.s.
  • Black, K. & K. Black 1971. The Moro language: grammar and dictionary. Khartoum: Sudan Research Unit. MacDiarmid, P.A. and D.N.
  • Edwards, G. 1941. Moro Dictionary. (handwritten m.s.)
  • Gibbard, George, Hannah Rohde & Sharon Rose. (2009). Moro Noun Class Morphology. In M. Matondo, F. McLaughlin & E. Potsdam (eds.) Selected Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 106-117.
  • Guest, Elizabeth. 1997a. Moro Phonology. m.s.
  • Guest, Elizabeth. 1997b. Moro Noun Classes. m.s.
  • Guest, Elizabeth. 1997c. Moro Verbs. m.s.
  • Guest, Elizabeth. 1997d. Moro Verbs Lexicon. m.s.
  • Guest, Elizabeth. 1997e. History of the Moro NT. m.s.
  • Guest, Elizabeth. 1998. Miscellaneous Moro Grammar. m.s.
  • Jenks, Peter. (to appear) Noun phrases in Moro. In R. Blench & T. Schadeberg (eds.) Languages of the Nuba Mountains.
  • Jenks, Peter & Sharon Rose (2011). High Tone in Moro: Effects of Prosodic Categories and Morphological Domains. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 29, 211-250.
  • Jenks, Peter and Sharon Rose. (to appear) Syllable Weight and High Tone in Moro. Papers from the 45th Chicago Linguistic Society.
  • Rose, Sharon. The morphological structure of the Moro verb. In R. Blench & T. Schadeberg (eds.) Languages of the Nuba Mountains.
  • MacDiarmid. 1931. The languages of the Nuba Mountains. Sudan Notes and Records 14:149-162.
  • Schadeberg, Thilo C. 1981. A Survey of Kordofanian. Volume 1: The Heiban Group. Hamburg: Helmut Buske.
  • Stevenson, Roland C. 1956-57. "A survey of the phonetics and grammatical structures of the Nuba Mountain languages, with particular reference to Otoro, Katcha and Nyimang". Afrika und Übersee 40:73-84, 93-115; 41:27-65, 117-153, 171-196.
  • Strabone, Andrew & Sharon Rose. (2012). Morpho-phonological properties of the Moro causative. Selected Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
  • Moro Marriage notes
  • Notes on Language Use in the Moro Community in Khartoum

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