Moro is a Kordofanian language spoken in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan, Sudan.

[2] It is part of the Western group of West Central Heiban Kordofonian languages and belongs to the Niger-Congo phylum.

[ə] can be epenthetic or a reduced version of the peripheral vowels /i e o u/; it also appears in roots with no obvious source of reduction.

[8] In addition, light diphthongs such as [iə], [eə], [oa], and [uʌ] are also attested.

Vowel length is not contrastive, but lengthening is often observed in open penultimate or root-initial syllable.

Accoustice studies confirm that the schwas which trigger vowel harmony in Moro show a significantly lower F1 formant than those which do not, and that schwas in raised vowel contexts in Moro also exhibit significantly lower F1 formants than those in non-raised contexts.

[9] There are some identified rules for the construction of the plural according to its noun class: Moro language has many compound adjectives, that have their origin in the same root.

The postposition “-ŋa” can be translated to “with” and can be added at least to verbs: In other cases the prepositions “o-“ for singular and “lə-“ for plural can express that someone is from a certain place: In Moro there are so far three identified tenses: the past, the present and the future.

The present tense is used to describe actions that happened at the same time as the one before and if the word “when” is used, it changes its meaning to “while”.

There are following rules: A simple Moro clause consists of the Subject – Verb – Object: Trwípolicemanđʌdəristopstrʌmbílí.carTrwí đʌdəri trʌmbílí.policeman stops carThe order of a noun phrase is in the order of: Noun – Demonstrative – Numeral – Adjective.

[4] Missionaries created an orthography including capital letters and also translated the New Testament into Moro in the Ləŋorəban dialect.

[18] Đ is typically used in its bowl-struck form, approximately ⟨d̶⟩ There are 7 dialects of Moro (Guest 1997a).