Cheke Holo language
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Cheke Holo | |
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Native to | Central Solomon Islands |
Region | Santa Isabel Island |
Native speakers
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unknown (10,800 cited 1999)[1] 1,500 monolinguals (1999?)[2] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mrn |
Glottolog | chek1238 [3] |
Cheke Holo (also called Maringe or Marine, A’ara, Holo, Kubonitu) is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands. Its speakers live on Santa Isabel Island.
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Phonology
The phonology of Cheke Holo shows some peculiarities, shared with other Santa Isabel languages, like the aspirated stops and the voiceless sonorants. The five-vowel system instead conforms to the prototypical system of the Oceanic area (White, Kokhonigita & Pulomana 1988).
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
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Nasal | m̥ | m | n̥ | n | ɲ̊ | ɲ | ŋ̊ | ŋ | |||
Stop | plain | p | b | t | d | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | k | g | ʔ | |
aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | ||||||||
Fricative | plain | f | v | s | z | ɣ | |||||
aspirated | ɣʱ | ||||||||||
Leteral | l̥ | l | |||||||||
Trill | r̥ | r |
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | u | |
Mid | e | o | |
Low | a |
Notes
- ↑ Cheke Holo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Cheke Holo language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
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References
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External links
- Keha Tarai Mala Lao Legu Narone Anglican devotional material in Cheke Holo (1934)
- Buka Tharai Ka Cheke Marine Portions of the Book of Common Prayer in Cheke Holo (1973) digitized by Richard Mammana
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