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.
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/.
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)
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 linksedit
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
cheke, holo, language, cheke, holo, also, called, maringe, mariŋe, holo, kubonitu, oceanic, language, spoken, solomon, islands, speakers, live, santa, isabel, island, cheke, holonative, tocentral, solomon, islandsregionsanta, isabel, islandnative, speakers, ci. 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 Cheke HoloNative toCentral Solomon IslandsRegionSanta Isabel IslandNative speakers 10 800 cited 1999 1 1 500 monolinguals 1 Language familyAustronesian Malayo PolynesianOceanicNorthwest SolomonicNew Georgia YsabelYsabelEast IsabelCheke HoloLanguage codesISO 639 3 a href https iso639 3 sil org code mrn class extiw title iso639 3 mrn mrn a Glottologchek1238 Contents 1 Phonology 2 Morphosyntax 3 Notes 4 References 5 External linksPhonology editThe 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 amp Pulomana 1988 Boswell 2018 16 has x rather than ɣʰ Consonant phonemes Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar GlottalNasal m m n n ɲ ɲ ŋ ŋStop plain p b t d t ʃ d ʒ k ɡ ʔaspirated pʰ tʰ kʰFricative plain f v s z ɣ haspirated ɣʰLateral l lTrill r rVowel phonemes Front Central BackHigh i uMid e oLow aMorphosyntax editVerbs 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 gt vravra be quick to act Partial or White s rule reduplication bela wooden platform gt beabela stack up firewood Syllable reduplication nolo to walk gt nonolo go walking about kmokhu stop gt kmokmohu continue to cease fruni cover gt fufruni cover completely when the second consonant of a cluster is r this is dropped in the reduplicated syllable Notes edit a b Cheke Holo at Ethnologue 25th ed 2022 nbsp References editBoswell 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 editKeha 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 This article about Meso Melanesian languages is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This Solomon Islands article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Cheke Holo language amp oldid 1197847135, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
