| Halia | |
| Also Known As: | Selau |
| States: | Papua New Guinea |
| Region: | Buka Island, Selau Peninsula |
| Speakers: | 25,000 |
| Date: | 2005 |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam3: | Oceanic |
| Fam4: | Western |
| Fam5: | Meso-Melanesian |
| Fam6: | Northwest Solomonic |
| Fam7: | Nehan–Bougainville |
| Fam8: | Buka |
| Fam9: | Halia–Hakö |
| Iso3: | hla |
| Glotto: | hali1244 |
| Glottorefname: | Halia |
Halia is an Austronesian language of Buka Island and the Selau Peninsula of Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea.
The phonology of the Halia language:[1]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Plosive | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Affricate | pronounced as /link/ ~ pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Lateral | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Rhotic | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Semivowel | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Mid | (pronounced as /link/) | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Low | pronounced as /link/ |
Diphthong vowel sounds include pronounced as //ei, au, ou//.
pronounced as /link/ exists, but not as a monophthong.
| Phoneme | Allophones | |
|---|---|---|
| pronounced as //b// | pronounced as /link/ | |
| pronounced as //ɡ// | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ | |
| pronounced as //ts// | pronounced as /link/ | |
| pronounced as //r// | pronounced as /link/ | |
| pronounced as //a// | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ | |
| pronounced as //ʊ// | pronounced as /link/ | |
| pronounced as //ei// | pronounced as /link/, [ɛi], pronounced as /link/ |
In the 1960s Francis Hagai produced a series of liturgies in Halia as part of his work with the Hahalis Welfare Society.[2]