Halia language
Halia is an Austronesian language of Buka Island and the Selau Peninsula of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea.
| Halia | |
|---|---|
| Selau | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Buka Island, Selau Peninsula |
Native speakers | (20,000 cited 1994)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | hla |
| Glottolog | hali1244[2] |
Phonology
The phonology of the Halia language[3]:
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ||
| voiced | b | g | ||||
| Affricate | ts ~ tʃ | |||||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Rhotic | r | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| ɪ | ʊ | ||
| Mid | (e) | o | |
| ɛ | ɔ | ||
| Low | a |
Diphthong vowel sounds include /ei, au, ou/.
[e] exists, but not as a monopthong.
Allophones
| Phoneme | Allophones |
| /b/ | [β] |
| /ɡ/ | [ɣ], [χ] |
| /ts/ | [tʃ] |
| /r/ | [ɾ] |
| /a/ | [æ], [ɐ], [ʌ] |
| /ʊ/ | [ɨ] |
| /ei/ | [e], [ɛi], [ɛ] |
References
- Halia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Halia". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Allen, Jerry (1987). Halia grammar. Data Papers on Papua New Guinea Languages, 32: Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics. pp. 4–10, 215–219.CS1 maint: location (link)
External links
- Written materials on Halia are available at Kaipuleohone under 'Selau'
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