Selayar language
| Selayar | |
|---|---|
| Bahasa Selayar | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Selayar Islands, South Sulawesi |
Native speakers | 130,000 (2000 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sly |
| Glottolog | sela1260 |
Selayar or Selayarese is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by about 100,000 people on the island of Selayar in South Sulawesi province, Indonesia.[2]
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i | u |
| Mid | e | o |
| Low | a | |
Vowels are lengthened when stressed and in an open syllable.
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."[3]
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.
Notes
- ^ Selayar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Mithun & Basri (1986:210)
- ^ Mithun & Basri (1986): pp. 225–226.
References
- Mithun, Marianne; Hasan Basri (1986). "The Phonology of Selayarese". Oceanic Linguistics. 25 (1/2): 210–254. doi:10.2307/3623212. JSTOR 3623212.
