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Ghari language

Ghari language

Austronesian language spoken in the Solomon Islands

Ghari (also known as Gari, Tangarare, Sughu, and West Guadalcanal) is an Oceanic language spoken on Guadalcanal island of the Solomon Islands.

Quick Facts Region, Native speakers ...

The Vaturanga dialect has been used extensively in missionary and liturgical translations, leading linguist Arthur Capell to describe it as a mission/ecclesiastical language.

Phonology

The following is the Qae dialect:[2][3]

Consonants

More information Labial, Alveolar ...

[a]/ⁿt͡s/ in other dialects

[b]/ⁿd͡z/ in other dialects

[c][h] can be heard as a variation of /ɣ/ across dialects.

Where it differs from the IPA, the orthography is written in angular brackets (<>).

Vowels

More information Front, Central ...

References

Notes
  1. [1]
    Ghari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    Todd, Evelyn M. (1980). Qae (Solomon Islands) and its linguistic context. In Paz B. Naylor (ed.), Austronesian studies: Papers from the Second Eastern Conference on Austronesian languages: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan. pp. 227–240.
  3. [3]
    A Grammar of the Language of Vaturanga, Guadalcanal, British Solomon Islands
Sources
  • Ivens, W. G. (1934). "A Grammar of the Language of Vaturanga, Guadalcanal, British Solomon Islands". Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London. 7 (2): 349–375. doi:10.1017/s0041977x0008527x.


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