Towards a Phonetic Description of Koro

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2013
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Swarthmore College. Dept. of Linguistics
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Koro is an endangered Tibeto-Burman language of the Sino-Tibetan Family, spoken by a few hundred speakers in Arunachal Pradesh, India. This thesis builds on the fieldwork of the Living Tongues/Enduring Voices team by using their data to begin to describe the sound system of Koro. A phonetic inventory of the language is proposed, and possible features such as tone and vowel length are discussed. A description of the syllable structure of Koro is also included. The goal of this project is to lay the groundwork for future research on Koro, both for the benefit of theoretical linguistics as well as for the benefit of Koro-Ianguage preservation, education, and vitalization efforts.
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