Selayar language

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Selayar
Bahasa Selayar
Spoken in	Selayar Islands, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Total speakers	100,000 (1986[update])[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Nuclear MP South Sulawesi Makassar Selayar
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	map
ISO 639-3	sly
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Selayar or Selayarese is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by about 100,000 people on the island of Selayar in South Sulawesi province, Indonesia.^[1]

Contents 1 Phonology 1.1 Vowels 1.1.1 Nasalization 1.2 Consonants 2 Notes 3 References

[edit] Phonology

[edit] Vowels

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Mid	e	o
Low	a

Vowels are lengthened when stressed and in an open syllable.

[edit] Nasalization

Nasalization extends from nasal consonants to the following vowels, continuing until blocked by an intonation break or a consonant other than a glottal stop:

[lamẽãĩʔĩ ãːsu] "A dog urinated on him."

[sassaʔ lamẽãĩʔĩ | ʔaːsu lataiːʔiʔi] "A lizard urinated on him, and a dog defecated on him."^[2]

[edit] Consonants

		Bilabial	Coronal	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Plosive	prenasalized	mb	nd	ɲɟ	ŋɡ
	voiced	b	d	ɟ	ɡ
	voiceless	p	t̪		k	ʔ
Fricative			s			h
Lateral			l
Approximant			ɹ

Of the coronals, the voiceless stop is dental, while the others are alveolar.

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

• Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). "Selayar". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (Fifteenth ed.). Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. 
• Mithun, Marianne; Hasan Basri (1986). "The Phonology of Selayarese". Oceanic Linguistics 25 (1/2): 210–254. doi:10.2307/3623212.