Cheke Holo language

Cheke Holo
Native to Central Solomon Islands
Region Santa Isabel Island
Native speakers
 10,800 (1999)[1]
1,500 monolinguals (1999?)[2]
Austronesian
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.

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).

Consonant phonemes
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m̥m n̥n ɲ̊ɲ ŋ̊ŋ
Stop plain pb td t͡ʃd͡ʒ kg ʔ
aspirated pʰ tʰ kʰ
Fricative plain fv sz ɣ
aspirated ɣʱ
Leteral l̥l
Trill r̥ɲ
Vowel phonemes
Front Central Back
High i u
Mid e o
Low a

Notes

  1. ↑ Cheke Holo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Cheke Holo language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Cheke Holo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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