Selayar (Basa Silajara) or Selayarese is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by approximately 130,000 people of the Selayar people on the Selayar Islands in the province of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. This language is egalitarian in its use, there are no levels of language, either rough or weak.
Phonology
Vowels Front Back High Mid Low Vowels are lengthened when stressed and in an open syllable.
Nasalization Nasalization extends from nasal consonants to the following vowels, continuing until blocked by an intonation break or a consonant other than a glottal stop: "A dog urinated on him." "A lizard urinated on him, and a dog defecated on him."
Consonants Bilabial Coronal Palatal Velar Glottal Nasal Plosive prenasalized voiced voiceless Fricative Lateral Rhotic
Of the coronals, the voiceless stop is dental, while the others are alveolar.
Morphology Selayarese intransitive verbs index pronominal arguments via an absolutive enclitic.
In transitive verbs the less agent-like argument is indexed by the absolutive enclitic.
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