Ghari language

Ghari
Ghari
Region	Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
Native speakers	12,000 (1999)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southeast Solomonic Gela–Guadalcanal Guadalcanal Ghari; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	7,100 Ghari; 3,000 Ndi (Vaturanga); 950 Gae (Nggae, Qae); 550 Tandai-Nggaria (Tanaghai); 490 Nginia; Geri (Nggeri);
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gri
Glottolog	ghar1239

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

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]

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Stop/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	tʃ	k
Stop/ Affricate	prenasal	ᵐb	ⁿd	ᶮdʒ	ᵑɡ
Fricative		β	s		ɣ	(h)
Lateral			l
Rhotic			r

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

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid	e		o
Low		a

References

Notes

Ghari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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.

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.

External links

Na Voihavo Matena na Hahani Tabu online text of Anglican liturgy in Vaturanga, digitized by Richard Mammana
Paradisec open access vocabulary list of the Vaturanga dialect
Paradisec open access Swadesh list of Vaturanga
Paradisec open access full text of A Grammar of the Language of Vaturanga, Guadalcanal, British Solomon Islands
Paradisec open access map of languages of Guadalcanal

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[e18-1] Ghari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[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.