Ghari language

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Ghari (also known as Gari, Tangarare, Sughu, and West Guadalcanal) is an Oceanic language spoken on Guadalcanal island of the Solomon Islands. The Vaturanga dialect has been used extensively in missionary and liturgical translations, leading linguist Arthur Capell to describe it as a mission/ecclesiastical language.

Phonology

The following is the Qae dialect:

Consonants

!colspan="2"| ! Labial ! Alveolar Palatal ! Velar Glottal !colspan="2"| Nasal !rowspan="2"| Stop/ Affricate ! voiceless ! prenasal !colspan="2"|Fricative !colspan="2"|Lateral !colspan="2"|Rhotic [a]/ⁿt͡s/ in other dialects [b]/ⁿd͡z/ in other dialects [c] can be heard as a variation of across dialects. Where it differs from the IPA, the orthography is written in angular brackets (<>).

Vowels

! ! Front Central ! Back ! High ! Mid ! Low

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