In this article, we want to explore the topic of Cheke Holo language and delve into its importance in today's society. Cheke Holo language is a concept that has captured the attention of many people in recent years, and its relevance extends to different areas of daily life. From its impact on mental health to its influence in the workplace, Cheke Holo language has proven to play a significant role in the way we face the challenges and opportunities that arise in our daily lives. Through this article, we will seek to analyze different perspectives on Cheke Holo language and its impact on our society, offering a detailed analysis that invites reflection and debate on this currently crucial topic.
Cheke Holo | |
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Native to | Central Solomon Islands |
Region | Santa Isabel Island |
Native speakers | (10,800 cited 1999) 1,500 monolinguals |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mrn |
Glottolog | chek1238 |
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/.
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
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Nasal | m̥ | m | n̥ | n | ɲ̊ | ɲ | ŋ̊ | ŋ | |||
Stop | plain | p | b | t | d | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | k | ɡ | ʔ | |
aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | ||||||||
Fricative | plain | f | v | s | z | ɣ | h | ||||
aspirated | ɣʰ | ||||||||||
Lateral | l̥ | l | |||||||||
Trill | r̥ | r |
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | u | |
Mid | e | o | |
Low | a |
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: