Sa'a language
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Austronesian language spoken in the Solomon Islands
Not to be confused with Saa language.
| Sa'a | |
|---|---|
| Region | South Malaita, Solomon Islands |
Native speakers | (12,000 cited 1999)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | apb |
| Glottolog | saaa1240 |
Sa'a (also known as South Malaita and Apae'aa) is an
Small Malaita and Ulawa Island in the Solomon Islands
. In 1999, there were around 12,000 speakers of the language.
Phonology
The following is listed below:[2]
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lab. | |||||
Plosive
|
p | pʷ | t | tʃ | k | ʔ |
Fricative
|
s | h | ||||
| Nasal | m | mʷ | n | ŋ | ||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Tap | ɾ | |||||
| Approximant | w | |||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | a |
References
- ^ Sa'a at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Ashley, Karen (2012). Semantics of Sa'a transitive suffixes and thematic consonants.
External links
- Palona Haalu Ana Nau Maai Sa'a (1979) A Liturgy for Melanesia in Sa'a, digitized by Richard Mammana and Charles Wohlers
- Materials on Karnai are included in the open access Paradisec.
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- * indicates proposed status
- ? indicates classification dispute
- † indicates extinct status
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