Gela language

Gela language

language
name=Gela
states=Central Solomon Islands
region=Big Nggela, Small Nggela, Sandfly and Buenavista Islands
speakers=5,000–10,000
familycolor=Austronesian
fam2=Malayo-Polynesian (MP)
fam3=Central Eastern MP
fam4=Eastern MP
fam5=Oceanic
fam6=Central-Eastern Oceanic
fam7=Southeast Solomonic
fam8=Gela-Guadalcanal
fam9=Gela
iso2=map|iso3=nlg

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.

Phonology

Phonemes

Consonants

Gela uses the following consonant phonemes:

p t k | b d g | m n ŋ | v z ɣ | s r l w y

Vowels

Gela uses i, e, a, o, u with no contrastive vowel length.

tress

Stress generally occurs on each word's penultimate syllable.

ample Vocabulary

Numbers

# keza
# rua
# tolu
# vati
# lima
# ono
# vitu
# alu
# ziwa
# zangavulu


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