Lehali language
| Lehali | |
|---|---|
| Loli | |
| Native to | Vanuatu |
| Region | Ureparapara |
Native speakers | 200 (2010)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
tql |
| Glottolog |
leha1243[2] |
Lehali (also known as Teqel) is a language spoken on the west coast of Ureparapara Island in Vanuatu.[1] It is distinct from Löyöp, the language spoken on the east coast of the same island.
Phonology
Lehali has 10 phonemic vowels. These are all short monophthongs /i ɪ ɛ æ ə a ɒ̝ ɔ ʊ u/:[3]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | |
| Mid | ə | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Near-open | æ | ɒ̝ | |
| Open | a | ||
References
- 1 2 List of Banks islands languages.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lehali". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ François (2011:194)
Bibliography
- François, Alexandre (2011), "Social ecology and language history in the northern Vanuatu linkage: A tale of divergence and convergence", Journal of Historical Linguistics, 1 (2): 175–246, doi:10.1075/jhl.1.2.03fra .
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