Ghari language

Ghari (also known as Gari, Tangarare, Sughu, and West Guadalcanal) is an Oceanic language spoken on Guadalcanal island of the Solomon Islands.

Ghari
Gari
Region	Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
Native speakers	(12,000 cited 1999)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southeast Solomonic Gela–Guadalcanal Guadalcanal Ghari
Dialects	7,100 Ghari 3,000 Ndi (Vaturanga) 950 Gae (Nggae, Qae) 550 Tandai-Nggaria (Tanaghai) 490 Nginia Geri (Nggeri)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gri
Glottolog	ghar1239

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:^[2][3]

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n		ŋ ⟨ng⟩
Stop/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	tʃ[a] ⟨j⟩	k
	prenasal	ᵐb ⟨b⟩	ⁿd ⟨d⟩	ᶮdʒ[b] ⟨z⟩	ᵑɡ ⟨ngg⟩
Fricative		β ⟨v⟩	s		ɣ ⟨h⟩	(h)[c]
Lateral			l
Rhotic			r

^[a]/ⁿt͡s/ in other dialects

^[b]/ⁿd͡z/ in other dialects

^[c][h] can be heard as a variation of /ɣ/ across dialects.

Where it differs from the IPA, the orthography is written in angular brackets (<>).

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid	e		o
Low		a