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


Heraʻan 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.
Heraʻan is an agglutinative and polysynthetic language, largely trisyllabic, with verb-object-subject word order, and a typologically unusual kind of morphosyntactic alignment dubbed the [[Wikipedia:Austronesian allignment|Boreaurelian allignment]] by linguists.


==Phonology==
==Phonology==

Revision as of 16:30, 12 May 2019

Heraʻan
Āmanava Heraʻā
Native toSelayar
Native speakers
19 million (2015 census)
L2 speakers: 16.3 million (2015 census)
Dialects
  • Wanaperaʻan
  • Ruawan
  • Tinataʻan
  • Vahilan
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

Heraʻan language (Āmanava Heraʻā ['aːmanava hɛ'raʔaː]) 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 languages, Tanganan languages, and more distantly to other Boreaurelian languages around the Manamana Bay.

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

Phonology

Heraʻan has 14 phonemes, 10 of them are consonants and 4 are vowels. Syllable structure is (C)(V)(C)VCV, the parenthesis indicates it is optional.

Vowels

Vowel length is phonemic in Heraʻan; but three of the four long vowels occur in only a handful of word roots, the exception being /aː/.

Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i u [u], [uː]
Mid e [eː], [ɛ]
Open a [a], [aː]

Consonants

Consonants
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ŋ
Plosive t ʔ
Fricative v h
Approximant l w
Trill r

Grammar

Boreaurelian allignment

Examples

Numbers

The numbers (a wirangana) in Heraʻan 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.