Čeke Holo
Idioma cheke holo
Cheke holo
Lingua cheke holo
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Cheke Holo language
In today's world, Cheke Holo language has acquired unexpected relevance. Its impact has been felt in every area of society, from politics to culture, technology and the economy. It is impossible to ignore its presence, since its effects can be seen in the daily lives of millions of people around the world. Therefore, it is imperative to delve into its implications and understand the role it plays today. This article aims to explore the different facets of Cheke Holo language, analyzing its influence and its repercussions in different areas, in order to shed light on a phenomenon that is constantly evolving.
| Cheke Holo | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Central Solomon Islands |
| Region | Santa Isabel Island |
Native speakers | (10,800 cited 1999) 1,500 monolinguals |
Austronesian
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| 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 the Solomon Islands. Its speakers live on Santa Isabel Island.
Phonology
The phonology 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 (White, Kokhonigita & Pulomana 1988). Boswell (2018:16) has /x/ rather than /ɣʰ/.
| 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 |
Morphosyntax
Verbs in Cheke Holo are marked neither for tense nor for person, although they can be prefixed with fa- (a causative marker) and they take enclitics. Among the possible clitics are the direct object pronouns, the completive aspect markers hi and hila, and the continuative aspect marker u (Boswell 2018).
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 (Boswell 2018). Different types of reduplications are possible in Cheke Holo:
- Full reduplication
- /vra/ 'jump up' > /vravra/ 'be quick to act'
- Partial (or White's rule) reduplication
- /bela/ 'wooden platform' > /beabela/ 'stack up firewood'
- Syllable reduplication
- /nolo/ 'to walk' > /nonolo/ 'go walking about'
- /kmokhu/ 'stop' > /kmokmohu/ 'continue to cease'
- /fruni/ 'cover' > /fufruni/ 'cover completely' (when the second consonant of a cluster is /r/, this is dropped in the reduplicated syllable)
Notes
- ^ a b Cheke Holo at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
References
- Boswell, Fredrick Alvin (2018). A Grammar of Cheke Holo (Doctoral thesis). LOT Publications (Leiden University). hdl:1887/67082. ISBN 978-94-6093-301-1.
- White, Geoffrey; Kokhonigita, Francis; Pulomana, Hugh (1988). Cheke Holo (Maringe/Hograno) Dictionary. Pacific Linguistics Series C - No. 97. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. doi:10.15144/pl-c97. hdl:1885/145429. ISBN 0-85883-368-9.
- Palmer, Bill (2009). "Clause Order and Information Structure in Cheke Holo". Oceanic Linguistics. 48 (1): 213–249. doi:10.1353/ol.0.0038. hdl:1959.13/916448. S2CID 145092013.
External links
- Keha Tarai Mala Lao Legu Narone Anglican devotional material in Cheke Holo (1934)
- Buka Tharai Ka Cheke Marine Portions of the Book of Common Prayer in Cheke Holo (1973) digitized by Richard Mammana
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