Borong is a Papuan language spoken in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Kosorong and Yangeborong.
Phonology Consonants Borong has twenty consonants. Bilabial Labio-dental Alveolar Palatal Velar Labial-velarPlosive Voiceless Voiced Nasal Trill Affricate Voiceless Voiced Fricative Approximant
Vowels Borong has five short vowels, five long vowels, and a variety of vowel sequences.
+Monophthongs Front Central Back High Mid Low
+Vowel sequences /e/ /a/ /o/ /u/
Example +Example story Borong EnglishFormerly our leaders made like this: As their young males grew, they were put into the boy's house. All food was forbidden from them. They lived there until an appointed time. Then they took a pig, taros, dancing hats and kundu drums and came forth together, sang and danced the whole night until morning. Then they killed the pig, cooked and cut it into pieces, shared the pig and the taros and gave them to eat. They ate as much as they could and left the leftovers and went home. That's it.
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