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Where is Moru spoken?

Moru is a Central Sudanic language, spoken in South Sudan. The outlined area on the map shows where.

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Atlantic-Congo
Austronesian
Sino-Tibetan
Indo-European
Afro-Asiatic
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Otomanguean
Austroasiatic
Tai-Kadai
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Where Moru is spoken

Moru is spoken in one country: South Sudan.

Country
South Sudan

On the map, Moru is drawn as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007. The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18613195), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Moru.

How many people speak Moru?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.

Status: Not endangered. Glottolog lists it as not endangered: it is still being passed on to children.

Where Moru sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Moru as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

Central Sudanic
Moru-Madi
Moru

More about Moru

Codes: ISO 639-3 mgd, Glottolog moru1253. Glottolog macroarea: Africa.

Questions about Moru

Where is Moru spoken?

Moru is spoken in South Sudan. On the map it is shown as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007.

Which language family is Moru in?

Glottolog places Moru in the Central Sudanic family, in the branch Moru-Madi.