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Koro (Vanuatu)
Koro is an Oceanic language spoken on Gaua, Gaua island in Vanuatu. Its 280 speakers live in the village of Koro (Vanuatu), Koro, on the south coast of Gaua. Koro is a distinct language from its immediate neighbours, Dorig language, Dorig (300 sp.) and Olrat language, Olrat (4 sp.). Name The name ''Koro'', spelled natively as ''Kōrō'' , is an endonym referring to the village. Phonology Koro has 8 phoneme, phonemic vowels. These include 7 monophthongs and one diphthong . The diphthong is spelled as . Grammar The system of personal pronouns in Koro contrasts clusivity, and distinguishes four Grammatical number, numbers (singular, Dual number, dual, Trial number, trial, plural). Spatial reference in Koro is based on a system of geocentric (Linguistic frame of reference#Absolute frame of reference, absolute) directionals, which is typical of Oceanic languages.#updown, François (2015). Notes and references References Bibliography * * . * * * * External link ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanuatu
Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, east of New Guinea, southeast of the Solomon Islands, and west of Fiji. Vanuatu was first inhabited by Melanesian people. The first Europeans to visit the islands were a Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Fernandes de Queirós, who arrived on the largest island, Espíritu Santo, in 1606. Queirós claimed the archipelago for Spain, as part of the colonial Spanish East Indies, and named it . In the 1880s, France and the United Kingdom claimed parts of the archipelago, and in 1906, they agreed on a framework for jointly managing the archipelago as the New Hebrides through an Anglo-French condominium. An independence movement arose in the 1970s, and the Republic of Vanuatu was fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |