Koro language (India)
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| Koro | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
| Region | Arunachal Pradesh, India |
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Native speakers
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1,500 (2010)[1] |
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Possibly Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | jkr |
| Glottolog | koro1316[2] |
Koro is a possibly Sino-Tibetan language spoken by approximately 800–1,200 people in the East Kameng district at the western end of Arunachal Pradesh, India. Few speakers are under 20 years old.[3] The people live among the Aka (Hruso), but their language is only distantly related, with distinct words for numerals, body parts, and other basic vocabulary.[3][4] Although it has resemblances to Tani farther to the east, it appears to be at least a separate branch of Sino-Tibetan.[5] Researchers hypothesize it may have originated from a group of people enslaved and brought to the area.[4]
Identification
Recognition in the academic literature of Koro as a distinct language goes back at least to the 2009 edition of the Ethnologue (Lewis 2009), which based its findings on a language survey conducted in 2005. It notes that Koro has only 9 percent lexical similarity with Hruso Aka, and that it is "highly dissimilar to neighboring languages".[6]
In October 2010, the National Geographic Daily News published an article corroborating the findings of the Ethnologue based on research conducted in 2008 by a linguistic team of David Harrison, Gregory Anderson, and Ganesh Murmu while documenting two Hruso languages (Aka and Miji) as part of National Geographic's "Enduring Voices" project.[3] It was reported to them as a dialect of Aka, but turned out to be highly divergent.
Post & Roger Blench (2011)[7] propose that it is related to Milang in a branch, or perhaps independent family, they call Siangic.
References
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- Science Daily: New Language Identified in Remote Corner of India
- Enduring Voices Project
- Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages
- The New York Times: Hunting One Language, Stumbling Upon Another
- ↑ Koro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Morrison, Dan "'Hidden' Language Found in Remote Indian Tribe". National Geographic Daily News, October 5, 2010, Retrieved on October 5, 2010
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Schmid, Randolph E. "Undocumented language found hidden in India". Associated Press. 5 October 2010
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- ↑ Lewis, M. Paul (ed.), 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. Dallas, TX: SIL International, "Hruso".[1]
- ↑ Post, Mark W. and Roger Blench (2011). "Siangic: A new language phylum in North East India", 6th International Conference of the North East India Linguistics Society, Tezpur University, Assam, India, Jan 31 – Feb 2.
