Selayar language

Selayar
	Basa Silajara
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Selayar Islands, South Sulawesi
Native speakers	130,000 (2000 census)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian South Sulawesi Makassaric Selayar; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sly
Glottolog	sela1260[2]

Selayar or Selayarese is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by about 100,000 people on the island of Selayar in South Sulawesi province, Indonesia.[3]^:210

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."[3]^:225–226

Consonants

		Bilabial	Coronal	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Plosive	prenasalized	ᵐb	ⁿd	ᶮɟ	ᵑɡ
	voiced	b	d	ɟ	ɡ
	voiceless	p	t̪		k	ʔ
Fricative			s			h
Lateral			l
Approximant			ɹ

Of the coronals, the voiceless stop is dental, while the others are alveolar.

Morphology

Selayarese intransitive verbs index pronominal arguments via an absolutive enclitic.[4][5]^:162

a'lumpa'=a

jump=1s

'I jump'

mangang=a

tired=1s

'I am tired'

In transitive verbs the less agent-like argument is indexed by the absolutive enclitic.[5]^:163

ku=isse'=i

1s=know=3s

'I know him'

gollark: Orbital laser strike. It's the only way to be sure.

gollark: "Noble lies" are very uncool.

gollark: Have a disclaimer saying "any text printed on these masks may not reflect my actual opinion on the ideas such text may convey" or something.

gollark: I'm hoping COVID-19 will lead to even more realistic pandemic simulation games eventually.

gollark: Presumably, whoever makes them there doesn't care about the patents.

References

Selayar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Selayar". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Mithun, Marianne; Basri, Hasan (1986). "The Phonology of Selayarese". Oceanic Linguistics. 25 (1/2): 210–254. doi:10.2307/3623212. JSTOR 3623212.
Basri, Hasan (1999). Phonological and syntactic reflections of the morphological structure of Selayarese (Ph.D. dissertation). State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Mithun, Marianne (1991), "The role of motivation in the emergence of grammatical categories: The grammaticization of subjects", in Traugott, Elizabeth; Heine, Bernd (eds.), Approaches to Grammaticization, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 159–185, ISBN 9781556194023

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

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

[mb-3] Mithun, Marianne; Basri, Hasan (1986). "The Phonology of Selayarese". Oceanic Linguistics. 25 (1/2): 210–254. doi:10.2307/3623212. JSTOR 3623212.

[basri-4] Basri, Hasan (1999). Phonological and syntactic reflections of the morphological structure of Selayarese (Ph.D. dissertation). State University of New York at Stony Brook.

[m1991-5] Mithun, Marianne (1991), "The role of motivation in the emergence of grammatical categories: The grammaticization of subjects", in Traugott, Elizabeth; Heine, Bernd (eds.), Approaches to Grammaticization, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 159–185, ISBN 9781556194023