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|nativename  = ''Amanava Heraʻa''
|nativename  = ''Amanava Heraʻa''
|states      = [[Selayar]]
|states      = [[Selayar]]
|speakers    = {{sigfig|37.54|2}} million
|speakers    = {{sigfig|18.54|2}} million
|date        = 2015 census
|date        = 2015 census
|speakers2  = [[Wikipedia:Second language|L2 speakers]]: {{sigfig|155.93|3}} million (2010 census)
|speakers2  = [[Wikipedia:Second language|L2 speakers]]: {{sigfig|16.334|3}} million (2015 census)
|familycolor = [[Boreaurelian languages|Boreaurelian]]
|familycolor = [[Boreaurelian languages|Boreaurelian]]
|fam2 = [[Mananaman languages|Manamanan]]
|fam2 = [[Mananaman languages|Manamanan]]
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'''Selayarese''' (''Amanava Heraʻa'' ['amanava hera'ʔa]) is the official language of [[Selayar]].
'''Selayarese''' (''Amanava Heraʻa'' ['amanava he'raʔa]) is a Boreaurelian language spoken in Selayar where it is the sole official language and the language of the Heraʻan people, one the country's dominant ethnic groups. In 2015, it was spoken as a first language by 18 million, primarily the Heraʻan people, and as a second language by 16 million, particularly ethnic minorities in Selayar.
 
It is closely related to other languages in Selayar, such as Reyan languages, Vayaran language, Rahese language, and more distantly to other Boreaurelian languages around the Manamana Bay.
 
Selayarese is an agglutinative and polysynthetic language, largely trisyllabic, with verb-object-subject word order, and a typologically unusual kind of morphosyntactic alignment that is dubbed the [[Wikipedia:Austronesian allignment|Boreaurelian allignment]] by linguists.
 
==Phonology==
 
===Vowels===
 
===Consonants===
 
==Grammar==
 
===Boreaurelian allignment===
 
==Examples==
 
===Numbers===
The numbers (''a wirangana'') in Selayarese are of two sets, the common and ''arana'' sets. The ''arana'' set is used exclusively for human, eg. age. The ''arana'' set are usually derived from partial reduplication of the common set, though this is not always the case.

Revision as of 12:40, 12 May 2019

Selayarese
Amanava Heraʻa
Native toSelayar
Native speakers
19 million (2015 census)
L2 speakers: 16.3 million (2015 census)
Dialects
  • Wanaperaʻan
  • Mawuran
  • Ruawan
  • Tinataʻan
  • Vahilan
  • Leyan
Latin (Selayari alphabet)
Selayari Braille
Official status
Official language in
 Selayar
Regulated byRamuwaʻa na ʻAmanava Heraʻa
Language codes
ISO 639-1sr
ISO 639-2slr
ISO 639-3slr

Selayarese (Amanava Heraʻa ['amanava he'raʔa]) is a Boreaurelian language spoken in Selayar where it is the sole official language and the language of the Heraʻan people, one the country's dominant ethnic groups. In 2015, it was spoken as a first language by 18 million, primarily the Heraʻan people, and as a second language by 16 million, particularly ethnic minorities in Selayar.

It is closely related to other languages in Selayar, such as Reyan languages, Vayaran language, Rahese language, and more distantly to other Boreaurelian languages around the Manamana Bay.

Selayarese is an agglutinative and polysynthetic language, largely trisyllabic, with verb-object-subject word order, and a typologically unusual kind of morphosyntactic alignment that is dubbed the Boreaurelian allignment by linguists.

Phonology

Vowels

Consonants

Grammar

Boreaurelian allignment

Examples

Numbers

The numbers (a wirangana) in Selayarese are of two sets, the common and arana sets. The arana set is used exclusively for human, eg. age. The arana set are usually derived from partial reduplication of the common set, though this is not always the case.