Talk:Koro language (India)

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The ref "Hidden" Language Found in Remote Indian Tribe, National Geographic Daily News, 2005 Oct 10." gives a date of 2005, but the linked-to article is 5 Oct 2010, but gives some indication that the discovery was made in 2008. However, the Ethnologue entry for Hruso says a group called "Koro Aka" was discovered in 2005. Can anyone clear up the dates? I have not found what the 2005 survey was. Anyway, I'm going to edit the date, but I'm documenting it here. Mcswell (talk) 23:53, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Typo on the NatGeo date; thanks for finding the Ethnologue date. I suppose that was them?

Anderson said in an NPR interview today that he thinks it's an independent branch of TB. — kwami (talk) 02:14, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

As far as I can deduce from the Ethnologue page, "Koro Aka" is assumed to be a dialect of Aka. The CNN article states: "It is neither a dialect nor a sister language close to Hruso-Aka, despite being considered such by both Hruso and Koro people."[1] The latest news is that it isn't a dialect of Aka, but is in fact its own language. So while the name "Koro" may have been identified in an Ethnologue survey in 2005, its actual structure had not been elucidated until 2008. I'll note that the Ethnologue page affirms that the Aka and Koro are different: "Lexical similarity: 9% between the speech of a group called Koro and the Hruso dialect" --Stacey Doljack Borsody (talk) 04:37, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

E. didn't give it its own code, but a 9% cognacy implies that it's a separate branch of TB, not just another language. E. requires ~85% to consider s.t. a dialect. — kwami (talk) 05:19, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Current event?

I don't understand. If Koro was identified as a separate language in 2008, why is the media only reporting on it now? What precisely is the "current event" here that warrants the tag (and the inclusion of this article in the "In the news" section of the main page)? 85.178.74.103 (talk) 11:10, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Probably because the book just came out and a scientific paper on the subject will be published in December. --Stacey Doljack Borsody (talk) 17:52, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Koro Language in Venetian

this page is also written in Venetian. could comeone add vec:Lengua Koro to the languages side? --Gatto099 (talk) 18:30, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

done. BabelStone (talk) 18:39, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

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