Halia language

Halia
	Selau
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Buka Island, Selau Peninsula
Native speakers	(20,000 cited 1994)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Meso-Melanesian Northwest Solomonic Nehan–Bougainville Buka Halia–Hakö Halia; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	hla
Glottolog	hali1244[2]

Halia is an Austronesian language of Buka Island and the Selau Peninsula of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea.

Phonology

The phonology of the Halia language[3]:

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k
Plosive	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
High	ɪ		ʊ
Mid	(e)		o
Mid	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]

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gollark: Weird, but okay.

gollark: It has some convenient sides, but you can have stuff like "reminders" in a way which is not constantly listening to you.

gollark: Not EVERYONE has a constantly listening "assistant" thing, and just because you have some privacy-invasive thing doesn't mean adding MORE is a good idea.

gollark: Well, that's a stupid attitude, not the real till.

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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[e18-1] Halia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Halia". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[3] 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)