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| Selayar Bahasa Selayar |
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| Spoken in: | Selayar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia | |
| Total speakers: | 100,000 (1986[update])1 | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Sulawesi South Makassar Selayar |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | map | |
| ISO 639-3: | sly | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
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
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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."2
Consonants
| Bilabial | Coronal | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | Voiceless | p | t̪ | k | ʔ | |
| Voiced | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | ||
| Voiced prenasalized | mb | nd | ɲɟ | ŋɡ | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | ɹ | |||||
Of the coronals, the voiceless stop is dental, while the others are alveolar.
Notes
References
- Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). "Selayar", Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition, Dallas, Tex.: SIL International.
- Mithun, Marianne; Hasan Basri (1986). "The Phonology of Selayarese". Oceanic Linguistics 25 (1/2): 210–254. doi:.
