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(Redirected from Selau language) Language For the characters named Halia in Greek mythology, see Halie. For Thucydides' ancient Greek town of Halia, see Halieis.
Halia
Selau
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionBuka Island, Selau Peninsula
Native speakers25,000 (2005)
Language familyAustronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3hla
Glottologhali1244

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

Phonology

The phonology of the Halia language:

Consonants

Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ŋ
Plosive voiceless p t k
voiced b g
Affricate ts ~
Fricative s h
Lateral l
Rhotic r
Semivowel w j

Vowels

Front Central Back
High i u
ɪ ʊ
Mid (e) o
ɛ ɔ
Low a

Diphthong vowel sounds include /ei, au, ou/.

[e] exists, but not as a monophthong.

Allophones

Phoneme Allophones
/b/ [β]
/ɡ/ [ɣ], [χ]
/ts/ []
/r/ [ɾ]
/a/ [æ], [ɐ], [ʌ]
/ʊ/ [ɨ]
/ei/ [e], , [ɛ]

Grammar

Pronouns

There are four sets of pronouns. The first set functions as the subject when preceding the verb. Set 2 functions as a subject or object when following the verb. Set 3 is used for inalienable possession. Set 4 is used for alienable possession. There is an inclusive/exclusive first person distinction.

Pronoun 1 2 3 4
1SG alia lia -r i tar
2SG alö -mulö i tamulö
3SG nonei -en -nen i tanen
1PL (incl.) ara ra -rara i tarara
1PL (excl.) alam lam -mulam i tamulam
2PL alimiu limiu -milimiu i tamilimiu
3PL nori -en -ren i taren

The suffix -e signifies a transitive verb.

Literature

In the 1960s Francis Hagai produced a series of liturgies in Halia as part of his work with the Hahalis Welfare Society.

References

  1. Halia at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. Allen, Jerry (1987). Halia grammar. Data Papers on Papua New Guinea Languages, 32: Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics. pp. 4–10, 215–219.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  3. Allen, Jerry; Latu, Marcello; Koesana, Maurice; Tsirumits, Maurice (1982). Dictionaries of Papua New Guinea, Volume 6: Halia Language. The Long Now Foundation. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  4. Trompf, G. W. (1994). Payback: The Logic of Retribution in Melanesian Religions. Cambridge University Press. p. 224. ISBN 9780521416917.

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