Gela language
Gela is a Southeast Solomonic language spoken in three dialects on four islands in the central Solomon Islands. Each of the dialects is very similar, differing mainly on a small number of phonological points.
Gela | |
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Nggela | |
Native to | Central Solomon Islands |
Region | Big Nggela, Small Nggela, Sandfly and Buenavista Islands |
Native speakers | 12,000 (1999)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nlg |
Glottolog | gela1263 [2] |
Phonology
Phonemes
Consonants
Gela has the following consonant phonemes:
Labial | Alveolar | Velar | ||||
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Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
Stop | p | b | t | d | k | g |
Fricative | v | s | z | ɣ | ||
Approximant | w | l | j | |||
Trill | r |
NOTE: The Gela dominant Voiced is "h" not "z". "Z" is found in Savosavo language speakers (and Bugotu and part of Guadalcanal) who also speak Gela - primarily due to their use of the Church of Melanesia Common Prayer Books and Hymns (written in Gela in the 1940s).
Vowels
Gela uses /i, e, a, o, u/ with no contrastive vowel length.
Stress
Stress generally occurs on each word's penultimate syllable.
Sample Vocabulary
Numbers
- keha (keha or sakai, not keza)
- rua
- tolu
- vati
- lima
- ono
- vitu
- alu
- hiua (not hiwa)
- hangavulu
- hangavulu sakai
- hangavulu rua
- hangavulu tolu
- hangavulu vati
- hangavulu lima
- hangavulu ono
- hangavulu vitu
- hangavulu alu
- hangavulu hiua
- rua hangavulu
- rua hangavulu sakai
- rua hangavulu rua
- rua hangavulu tolu
- rua hangavulu vati
- rua hangavulu lima
- rua hangavulu ono
- rua hangavulu vitu
- rua hangavulu alu
- rua hangavulu hiua
- tolu hangavulu
- tolu hangavulu sakai
- tolu hangavulu rua
- tolu hangavulu tolu
- tolu hangavulu vati
- tolu hangavulu lima
- tolu hangavulu ono
- tolu hangavulu vitu
- tolu hangavulu alu
- tolu hangavulu hiua
- vati hangavulu
- vati hangavulu sakai
- vati hangavulu rua
- vati hangavulu tolu
- vati hangavulu vati
You may now recognized the pattern of number counting above.
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References
- Gela at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gela". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
External links
- Na Lei Kokoeliulivuti Portions of the Anglican Prayer Book in Gela
- Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles in Gela
- Paradisec open access collection of texts in Gela
- Paradisec open access collection of recordings in Gela
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