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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]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Talodi–Heiban Heiban West Heiban Moro
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mor
Glottolog	moro1285
ELP	Moro
Moro is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

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

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

• Moro Language Project (UCSD)
• Moro Story Corpus (UC Berkeley)
• Moro materials (Roger Blench and Elizabeth Guest)

На других языках

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[de] Moro (Sprache)

Moro ist eine kordofanische Sprache, die in Kordofan im Sudan gesprochen wird.

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- [en] Moro language

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[fr] Moro (langue)

Le moro est une langue heiban du Soudan.

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