Sa'a language

Sa'a
Sa'a
Region	South Malaita, Solomon Islands
Native speakers	(12,000 cited 1999)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southeast Solomonic Malaita – San Cristobal Malaita Sa'a; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Sa'a; Ulawa; Uki;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	apb
Glottolog	saaa1240

Sa'a (also known as South Malaita and Apae'aa) is an Oceanic language spoken on Small Malaita and Ulawa Island in the Solomon Islands. In 1999, there were around 12,000 speakers of the language.

Phonology

The phonemes of Sa'a are listed below.[2]

Consonants

	Labial		Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Velar	Glottal
	plain	lab.	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	p	pʷ	t	tʃ	k	ʔ
Fricative			s			h
Nasal	m	mʷ	n		ŋ
Lateral			l
Tap			ɾ
Approximant	w

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e		o
Open		a

References

Sa'a at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Ashley, Karen (2012). Semantics of Sa'a transitive suffixes and thematic consonants (PDF) (MA thesis). Dallas International University. pp. 15–16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-04-17.

External links

Palona Haalu Ana Nau Maai Sa'a (1979) A Liturgy for Melanesia in Sa'a, digitized by Richard Mammana and Charles Wohlers
Materials on Karnai are included in the open access Arthur Capell collection (AC2) held by Paradisec.

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[e18-1] Sa'a at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Ashley, Karen (2012). Semantics of Sa'a transitive suffixes and thematic consonants (PDF) (MA thesis). Dallas International University. pp. 15–16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-04-17.