| Gela | ||||
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| Spoken in | Central Solomon Islands | |||
| Region | Big Nggela, Small Nggela, Sandfly and Buenavista Islands | |||
| Native speakers | 5,000–10,000 (date missing) | |||
| Language family | ||||
| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-3 | nlg | |||
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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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Gela has the following consonant phonemes:
| Labial | Alveolar | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |
| Fricative | voiceless | s | ||
| voiced | v | z | ɣ | |
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |
| Trill | r | |||
| Approximant | w | l | j | |
Gela uses /i, e, a, o, u/ with no contrastive vowel length.
Stress generally occurs on each word's penultimate syllable.