Gela language
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| Gela | ||
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| Spoken in: | Central Solomon Islands | |
| Region: | Big Nggela, Small Nggela, Sandfly and Buenavista Islands | |
| Total speakers: | 5,000–10,000 | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Central Eastern MP Eastern MP Oceanic Central-Eastern Oceanic Southeast Solomonic Gela-Guadalcanal Gela Gela |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | map | |
| ISO 639-3: | nlg | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Gela is a Southeast Solomonic language spoken in three dialects on four islands in the central Solomon Islands. Each of the dialects is very similar, differing mainly on a small number of phonological points.
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[edit] Phonology
[edit] Phonemes
[edit] Consonants
Gela uses the following consonant phonemes:
p t k | b d g | m n ŋ | v z ɣ | s r l w y
[edit] Vowels
Gela uses i, e, a, o, u with no contrastive vowel length.
[edit] Stress
Stress generally occurs on each word's penultimate syllable.
[edit] Sample Vocabulary
[edit] Numbers
- keza
- rua
- tolu
- vati
- lima
- ono
- vitu
- alu
- ziwa
- zangavulu
