Lehali language
| Lehali | |
|---|---|
| Loli | |
| Native to | Vanuatu |
| Region | Ureparapara |
Native speakers | 200 (2010)[1] |
|
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
tql |
| Glottolog |
leha1243[2] |
Lehali (also known as Teqel) is a language spoken on the west coast of Ureparapara Island in Vanuatu.[1] It is distinct from Löyöp, the language spoken on the east coast of the same island.
Phonology
Lehali has 10 phonemic vowels. These are all short monophthongs /i ɪ ɛ æ ə a ɒ̝ ɔ ʊ u/:[3]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | |
| Mid | ə | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Near-open | æ | ɒ̝ | |
| Open | a | ||
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 List of Banks islands languages.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lehali". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ François (2011:194)
Bibliography
- François, Alexandre (2011), "Social ecology and language history in the northern Vanuatu linkage: A tale of divergence and convergence", Journal of Historical Linguistics 1 (2): 175–246, doi:10.1075/jhl.1.2.03fra.