| Moro | |
|---|---|
| Dhimorong | |
| Native to | Sudan |
| Region | South Kordofan |
| Ethnicity | Moro Nuba |
Native speakers | 79,000 (2022)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Latin | |
| 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 | |
Moro is a Kordofanian language spoken in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan, Sudan.[2] It is part of the Western group of West Central Heiban Kordofonian languages and belongs to the Niger-Congo phylum.[3] In 1982 there were an estimated 30,000 Moro-speakers. This was before the second Sudan civil war and therefore the recent number of speakers might differ. There can be noted an influence of Arabic and it is suspected that today approximately a fourth of all Moro vocabulary has a relation or an origin in the Arabic language.[4]
- ^ Moro at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
- ^ "Moro Language Project". moro.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-31.
- ^ Gibbard, George, Rohde, Hannah, and Rose, Sharon (2009). 'Moro Noun Class Morphology'. In Masangu Matonodo et al. (eds.) Selected Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, pp. 106-117. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings, p. 117. Project. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/38/paper2139.pdf?q=moro
- ^ SUDAN LOCAL LANGUAGE CENTRE: Notes on Language Use in the Moro Community in Khartoum. p. 1.
