| Cheke Holo | |
|---|---|
| Native to | CentralSolomon Islands |
| Region | Santa Isabel Island |
Native speakers | (10,800 cited 1999)[1] 1,500 monolinguals[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mrn |
| Glottolog | chek1238 |
Cheke Holo (also called Maringe or Mariŋe, A’ara, Holo, Kubonitu) is an Oceanic language spoken in theSolomon Islands. Its speakers live onSanta Isabel Island.
Thephonology of Cheke Holo shows some peculiarities, shared with other Santa Isabel languages, like the aspirated stops and the voiceless sonorants. The five-vowel system instead conforms to the prototypical system of the Oceanic area.[2]Boswell (2018) has /x/ rather than /ɣʰ/.[3]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m̥ | m | n̥ | n | ɲ̊ | ɲ | ŋ̊ | ŋ | |||
| Stop | plain | p | b | t | d | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | k | ɡ | ʔ | |
| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | ||||||||
| Fricative | plain | f | v | s | z | ɣ | h | ||||
| aspirated | ɣʰ | ||||||||||
| Lateral | l̥ | l | |||||||||
| Trill | r̥ | r | |||||||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Low | a |
Verbs in Cheke Holo are marked neither for tense nor for person, although they can be prefixed withfa- (a causative marker) and they take enclitics. Among the possible clitics are the direct object pronouns, the completive aspect markershi andhila, and the continuative aspect markeru.[4]
Reduplication is commonly employed with verb roots to express iteration or intensification and as a valency changing device (from intransitive to transitive), although there are attested cases of adjective and (less so) noun reduplication.[4] Different types of reduplications are possible in Cheke Holo:
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