Koro is a member of the North-Central Vanuatu branch of the Southern Oceanic group of Malayo-Polynesian languages. It is spoken by about 280 people in Koro, a village on the south coast of Gaua, one of the Banks Islands in Torba Province in northern Vanuatu.
Koro is written with the Latin alphabet.
Download an alphabet chart for Koro (Excel)
Na v-mōrōs na v-usräg sur tuar ususräg m-daw l-muk o vōnō a Kōrō, o ususräg vet l-mere. Nassan Wusēmelmel. Nēr ta-sasaa ti, nēr t-mumug ti, nēr t-riv o lem ti. Sur vōsōg o däm iē. Nēr t-riv o lem ti, nēr v-siräg o m̄alm̄al irō. Täre m̄alm̄al irō irru v-van täv o bē. Van täv o bē nen̄, o masle bē nen̄, na-ssan Bēkōs. Irru m-van vak, irru tävtäv o bē ti, ru vē-ēl ēs ve-rrēt ma gor mke da qēl den irru, irru vē-ēl na-tam̄nēn lē-bē.
I would like to tell a story from my village of Koro: the story of the eel. His name was Wusēmelmel. People were going about with their daily lives, attending their garden work. They were digging holes in the ground for the yam-planting season. And as they were digging holes in their gardens, they sent off two of their girls. These two girls were asked to go and fetch some fresh water. They went to fetch some water from a creek called Bēkōs. So off they went; but as they were busy drawing the water, suddenly a male silhouette appeared on the surface of the water, just above the two girls.
Source: https://pangloss.cnrs.fr/
Information about Koro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koro_language_(Vanuatu)
https://pangloss.cnrs.fr/corpus/Koro
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Languages written with the Latin alphabet
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