Ghari (also known as Gari, Tangarare, Sughu, and West Guadalcanal) is an Oceanic language spoken on Guadalcanal island of the Solomon Islands.
Ghari | |
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Region | Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands |
Native speakers | (12,000 cited 1999)[1] |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | gri |
Glottolog | ghar1239 |
The Vaturanga dialect has been used extensively in missionary and liturgical translations, leading linguist Arthur Capell to describe it as a mission/ecclesiastical language.
The following is the Qae dialect:[2][3]
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m | n | ŋ ⟨ng⟩ | |||
Stop/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | tʃ[a] ⟨j⟩ | k | |
prenasal | ᵐb ⟨b⟩ | ⁿd ⟨d⟩ | ᶮdʒ[b] ⟨z⟩ | ᵑɡ ⟨ngg⟩ | ||
Fricative | β ⟨v⟩ | s | ɣ ⟨h⟩ | (h)[c] | ||
Lateral | l | |||||
Rhotic | r |
[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 (<>).