Moro language
Moro is a Niger–Congo language in the Heiban family spoken by the Moro people in the Nuba Mountains of Kordofan, Sudan.
| Moro | |
|---|---|
| Dhimorong | |
| Region | Nuba Hills, Sudan |
| Ethnicity | Moro Nuba |
Native speakers | (30,000 cited 1982)[1] |
Niger–Congo
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mor |
| Glottolog | moro1285 |
| ELP | Moro[2] |
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
- Moro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Endangered Languages Project data for Moro.
- http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Niger-Congo/Kordofanian/Moro/guest_moro-phonology1997.pdf
- http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=mor
- Blench, Roger. 2005. A dictionary of the Moro language of the Nuba hills, Sudan. m.s.
- 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
External links
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