Guro

Guro is a Southeastern Mande language spoken by about 500,000 people along the western shores of Lac de Kossou in the regions of Haut-Sassandra and Marahoué and Fromager in southern Ivory Coast. In particularly in the subprefectures of Zuénoula, Vavoua, Gouitafla, Bouaflé, Sinfra, and Oumé, and also in the regions of Vallee du Bandama, Worodougou and Lacs.

Guro is also known as Gouro, Kweni, Kwéndré or Lo. It is written with the Latin alphabet, and there is a Guro translation of the Bible.

Guro alphabets and pronunciation

Guro alphabet and pronunciation

Download an alphabet chart for Guro (Excel)

Sample text

  1. É lé wo lɛ léé: Dé ka a bazorona, ’ka fe ’ko zo: Ko Ti, munu ’é kana i tɔ ma ma; ilé plale munu nwiin ’é da ma.
  2. ’I yi do zé fɛblele nɔ ko lɛ yi faa do do ma;
  3. ’i ko ma we vo, naa, ko é ziin, dé miomian éé wenyané kɛla ko lɛ, ko ’bɛzan ma we voo; té i go ko nya ko gi danna lo.

Source: https://www.bible.com/bible/3593/LUK.11.GOURU

Translation

  1. And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
  2. Give us day by day our daily bread.
  3. And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.
    The Lord's Prayer - Luke 11: 2-4

Source: https://www.bible.com/bible/1/LUK.11.KJV

Sample videos

Information about Guro | Tower of Babel

Links

Information about Guro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guro_language
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouro_(langue)
https://www.101lasttribes.com/tribes/guro.html
https://www.academia.edu/30908487/The_Guro_language_grammatical_sketch_with_
O_V_Kuznetsova_Н_В_Кузнецова_О_В_Кузнецова_Гуро_язык_
http://www.language-archives.org/language/goa
https://sites.courtauld.ac.uk/illuminating-objects/illuminating-objects-home/west-african-loom-pulley/the-guro/

Mande languages

Bambara, Boko, Busa, Dan, Dioula, Guro, Kpelle, Loma, Mandinka, Maninka, Mano, Mende, Soninke, Susu, Vai

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Page created: 03.06.25. Last modified: 03.06.25

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