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Lavukaleve language

Lavukaleve
Native toSolomon Islands
RegionRussell Islands
Native speakers
(1,800 cited 1999)[1]
Central Solomons
  • Lavukaleve
Language codes
ISO 639-3lvk
Glottologlavu1241
ELPLavukaleve
Lavukaleve is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Lavukaleve is one of the four Central Solomons languages of the Solomon Islands. It is thus assumed to be the descendant of the languages spoken in the Solomon Islands before the spread of the much more numerous Austronesian languages. The name Lavukaleve derives from the ethnonym Lavukal. The Lavukals are the indigenous peoples of the Russell Islands, part of the Solomon Islands Central Province. A comprehensive grammatical description of Lavukaleve was published by the linguist Angela Terrill in 2003.[2]

Lavukaleve is spoken in about eleven main villages. It used to be spoken predominantly on Pavuvu, the largest island, but the speakers were forcefully relocated by the British to the smaller islands in order to make way for plantations.[2]

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Alveolar Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ŋ
Plosive voiceless (p) t k
voiced b ~ ᵐb d ~ ⁿd
Fricative f s h
Rhotic r
Lateral l
Semivowel β̞ ɰ
  • Sounds /b, d/ are prenasalized [ᵐb, ⁿd] in intervocalic positions.
  • [p] only occurs in loanwords from Pijin.
  • /t, k/ can also be heard as aspirated [tʰ, kʰ] in free variation.
  • /r/ can also be heard as a tap [ɾ] or glide [ɹ] in free variation.

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close i u
Mid e o
Open a
  • Vowels /i, o/ can be heard as [ɪ, ɔ] when in unstressed syllables.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Lavukaleve at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b c Terrill, Angela (2003). A Grammar of Lavukaleve. Mouton Grammar Library, 30. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.


Quelle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavukaleve_language