Koroni
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- Language: Koroni
- Alternate names:: Oengsongi
- SIL-code: Ethnologue:xkq
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Celebic, Eastern, Southeastern, Bungku-Tolaki, Eastern, East Coast, Kulisusu
- Number of speakers: 500
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Koroni is a language of Indonesia. It is spoken in Central Sulawesi Province, Bungku Tengah subdistrict, Unsongi village. On Tolo bay, east coast, south of Bungku town. .
Dialects
Lexical similarity: 75% with Taloki (See: Taloki) and Kulisusu (See: Kulisusu), 66% with Wawonii (See: Wawonii), Bungku (See: Bungku), Tulambatu dialect of Bungku (See: Bungku); 65% with Moronene (See: Moronene).
The Koroni Verb
Sample Verbs
to bite | moŋkiki |
to burn | sumoŋko |
to come | leu |
to cry | umau |
to die, be dead | mate |
to dream | moʔipi |
to drink | mondoʔu |
to eat | moŋkaa |
to fall | tuuna |
to fly | lumaa |
to hear | moroŋe |
to kill | mompepate |
to know, be knowledgeable | toʔorio |
to laugh | heke |
to lie down | kodoledole |
to pound, beat | mombeu |
to say | koʔoni |
to see | moʔonto, molihe |
to sit | totoro |
to sleep | moturi |
to spit | meʔunuhi |
to stand | mentade |
to swim | lumaŋi |
to walk | lumiŋka |
to vomit | memelu |
to yawn |