Ghari (also known as Gari, Tangarare, Sughu, and West Guadalcanal) is an Oceanic language spoken on Guadalcanal island of the Solomon Islands.
The Vaturanga dialect has been used extensively in missionary and liturgical translations, leading linguist Arthur Capell to describe it as a mission/ecclesiastical language.
Phonology The following is the Qae dialect:A Grammar of the Language of Vaturanga, Guadalcanal, British Solomon Islands
Consonants {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- !colspan="2"| ! Labial ! Alveolar !Palatal ! Velar !Glottal |- !colspan="2"| Nasal
!rowspan="2"| Stop/Affricate ! voiceless
| [a]
! prenasal
| [b]
!colspan="2"|Fricative
|()[c] |- !colspan="2"|Lateral
!colspan="2"|Rhotic
[a]/ⁿt͡s/ in other dialects
[b]/ⁿd͡z/ in other dialects
[c] can be heard as a variation of across dialects.
Where it differs from the IPA, the orthography is written in angular brackets (<>).
Vowels {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! ! Front !Central ! Back |- ! High
! Mid
! Low
References Notes
Sources
External links Na Voihavo Matena na Hahani Tabu online text of Anglican liturgy in Vaturanga, digitized by Richard Mammana Paradisec open access vocabulary list of the Vaturanga dialect Paradisec open access Swadesh list of Vaturanga Paradisec open access full text of A Grammar of the Language of Vaturanga, Guadalcanal, British Solomon Islands Paradisec open access map of languages of Guadalcanal