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Austronesian language spoken in Vanuatu
Koro is an
Oceanic language spoken on
Gaua island in
Vanuatu. Its 280 speakers live in the village of
Koro, on the south coast of Gaua.
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Koro is a distinct language from its immediate neighbours,
Dorig (300 sp.) and
Olrat (4 sp.).
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Name
The name Koro, spelled natively as Kōrō
[kʊrʊ], is an endonym referring to the village.
Phonology
Koro has 8
phonemic vowels. These include 7
monophthongs /i ɪ ɛ a ɔ ʊ u/ and one
diphthong /ɛ͡a/.
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The diphthong [ɛ͡a] is spelled as ⟨ä⟩.
Grammar
The system of
personal pronouns in Koro contrasts
clusivity, and distinguishes four
numbers (singular,
dual,
trial, plural).
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Spatial reference in Koro is based on a system of geocentric (
absolute) directionals, which is typical of
Oceanic languages.
[6]
Notes and references
References
Bibliography
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François, Alexandre (2005),
"Unraveling the history of the vowels of seventeen northern Vanuatu languages" (PDF), Oceanic Linguistics, 44 (2): 443–504,
doi:
10.1353/ol.2005.0034,
S2CID
131668754
- François, Alexandre (2011),
"Social ecology and language history in the northern Vanuatu linkage: A tale of divergence and convergence" (PDF), Journal of Historical Linguistics, 1 (2): 175–246,
doi:
10.1075/jhl.1.2.03fra,
hdl:
1885/29283.
- François, Alexandre (2012),
"The dynamics of linguistic diversity: Egalitarian multilingualism and power imbalance among northern Vanuatu languages" (PDF), International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2012 (214): 85–110,
doi:
10.1515/ijsl-2012-0022,
S2CID
145208588
- François, Alexandre (2015).
"The ins and outs of up and down: Disentangling the nine geocentric space systems of Torres and Banks languages" (PDF). In Alexandre François; Sébastien Lacrampe; Michael Franjieh; Stefan Schnell (eds.).
The languages of Vanuatu: Unity and diversity. Studies in the Languages of Island Melanesia. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics. pp. 137–195.
hdl:
1885/14819.
ISBN
978-1-922185-23-5.
- François, Alexandre (2016),
"The historical morphology of personal pronouns in northern Vanuatu" (PDF), in Pozdniakov, Konstantin (ed.), Comparatisme et reconstruction : tendances actuelles, Faits de Langues, vol. 47, Bern: Peter Lang, pp. 25–60
- François, Alexandre (2021).
"In Love with an Eel Man".
Pangloss Collection. Paris: CNRS. Retrieved 22 Feb 2022.
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