Selayar language

Selayar
Bahasa Selayar
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Selayar Islands, South Sulawesi
Native speakers	130,000 (2000 census)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Nuclear MP South Sulawesi Makassar Selayar
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sly
Glottolog	sela1260[2]

Selayar or Selayarese is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by about 100,000 people on the island of Selayar in South Sulawesi province, Indonesia.^[3]

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Mid	e	o
Low	a

Vowels are lengthened when stressed and in an open syllable.

Nasalization

Nasalization extends from nasal consonants to the following vowels, continuing until blocked by an intonation break or a consonant other than a glottal stop:

[lamẽãĩʔĩ ãːsu] "A dog urinated on him."

[sassaʔ lamẽãĩʔĩ | ʔaːsu lataiːʔiʔi] "A lizard urinated on him, and a dog defecated on him."^[4]

Consonants

		Bilabial	Coronal	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Plosive	prenasalized	ᵐb	ⁿd	ᶮɟ	ᵑɡ
	voiced	b	d	ɟ	a
	voiceless	p	t̪		k	ʔ
Fricative			s			h
Lateral			l
Approximant			ɹ

Of the coronals, the voiceless stop is dental, while the others are alveolar.

Notes

1. Selayar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Selayar". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Mithun & Basri (1986:210)
4. Mithun & Basri (1986): pp. 225–226.

References

• Mithun, Marianne; Hasan Basri (1986). "The Phonology of Selayarese". Oceanic Linguistics 25 (1/2): 210–254. doi:10.2307/3623212. JSTOR 3623212.