| Selayar | |
|---|---|
| Basa Silajara | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Selayar Islands,South Sulawesi |
| Ethnicity | Selayar people |
Native speakers | 130,000 (2024)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sly |
| Glottolog | sela1260 |
 Distribution of the Selayar language (number 9) is circled in red in theSouth Sulawesi languages. | |
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Selayar (Basa Silajara) orSelayarese is aMalayo-Polynesian language spoken by approximately 130,000 people of theSelayar people on theSelayar Islands in the province ofSouth Sulawesi,Indonesia.[2]: 210 This language is egalitarian in its use, there are no levels of language, either rough or weak.
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i | u |
| Mid | e | o |
| Low | a | |
Vowels are lengthened when stressed and in an open syllable.
Nasalization extends from nasal consonants to the following vowels, continuing until blocked by anintonation break or a consonant other than aglottal stop:
| Bilabial | Coronal | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Plosive | prenasalized | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᶮɟ | ᵑɡ | |
| voiced | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | ||
| voiceless | p | t̪ | k | ʔ | ||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Rhotic | ɹ | |||||
Of the coronals, the voiceless stop isdental, while the others arealveolar.
Selayarese intransitive verbs index pronominal arguments via anabsolutive enclitic.[3][4]: 162
In transitive verbs the less agent-like argument is indexed by the absolutive enclitic.[4]: 163
