Languages

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
- Dialects
The Koroni Verb
- Sample Verbs

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

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