Selayar language
{{short description|Language spoken in Indonesia}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Selayar
|nativename={{lang|sly|Basa Silajara}}
|states=Indonesia
|region=Selayar Islands, South Sulawesi
|ethnicity=
|speakers={{sigfig|128,000|2}}
|date=2000 census
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Austronesian
|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
|fam3=South Sulawesi
|fam4=Makassaric
|iso3=sly
|glotto=sela1260
|glottorefname=Selayar
|notice=IPA
}}
Selayar or Selayarese is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by about 100,000 people on the island of Selayar in South Sulawesi province, Indonesia.{{cite journal |last=Mithun|first=Marianne|first2=Hasan|last2=Basri |year=1986 |title=The Phonology of Selayarese |journal=Oceanic Linguistics |volume=25 |issue=1/2 |pages=210–254 |doi=10.2307/3623212 |jstor=3623212}}{{rp|210}}
Phonology
=Vowels=
==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:
:{{IPA|[lamẽãĩʔĩ ãːsu]|lang=sly}} "A dog urinated on him."
:{{IPA|[sassaʔ lamẽãĩʔĩ
=Consonants=
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
!colspan="2"| ! Bilabial ! Coronal ! Palatal ! Velar ! Glottal |
| colspan="2"| Nasal
| {{IPA link|m}} | {{IPA link|n}} | {{IPA link|ɲ}} | {{IPA link|ŋ}} | |
|---|
| rowspan="3"| Plosive
| {{IPA link|ᵐb}} | {{IPA link|ⁿd}} | {{IPA link|ᶮɟ}} | {{IPA link|ᵑɡ}} | |
| voiced
| {{IPA link|b}} | {{IPA link|d}} | {{IPA link|ɟ}} | {{IPA link|ɡ}} | |
| voiceless
| {{IPA link|p}} | {{IPA link|t̪}} | | {{IPA link|k}} | {{IPA link|ʔ}} |
| colspan="2"| Fricative
| | {{IPA link|s}} | | | {{IPA link|h}} |
| colspan="2"| Lateral
| | {{IPA link|l}} | | | |
| colspan="2"| Rhotic
| | {{IPA link|ɹ}} | | | |
Of the coronals, the voiceless stop is dental, while the others are alveolar.
Morphology
Selayarese intransitive verbs index pronominal arguments via an absolutive enclitic.
{{cite thesis |last=Basri|first=Hasan|date=1999|type=Ph.D. dissertation
|title=Phonological and syntactic reflections of the morphological structure of Selayarese
|publisher=State University of New York at Stony Brook}}
|last=Mithun|first=Marianne|year=1991
|contribution=The role of motivation in the emergence of grammatical categories: The grammaticization of subjects
|editor-last=Traugott|editor-first=Elizabeth
|editor-last2=Heine|editor-first2=Bernd
|location=Amsterdam|publisher=John Benjamins
|title=Approaches to Grammaticization
|pages=159–185|isbn=9781556194023}}
{{rp|162}}
{{interlinear|indent=3
|a'lumpa'{{=}}a
|jump{{=}}1S
|'I jump'|lang=sly}}
{{interlinear|indent=3
|mangang{{=}}a
|tired{{=}}1S
|'I am tired'|lang=sly}}
In transitive verbs the less agent-like argument is indexed by the absolutive enclitic.{{rp|163}}
{{interlinear|indent=3
|ku{{=}}isse'{{=}}i
|1S{{=}}know{{=}}3S
|'I know him'|lang=sly}}
References
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{{incubator|sly}}
{{South Sulawesi languages}}
{{Languages of Indonesia}}
Category:South Sulawesi languages