| Selayar | |
| Nativename: | Basa Silajara |
| States: | Indonesia |
| Region: | Selayar Islands, South Sulawesi |
| Date: | 2000 census |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
| Fam3: | South Sulawesi |
| Fam4: | Makassaric |
| Iso3: | sly |
| Glotto: | sela1260 |
| Glottorefname: | Selayar |
| Notice: | IPA |
Selayar or Selayarese is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by about 100,000 people on the island of Selayar in South Sulawesi province, Indonesia.[1]
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| High | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
| Mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
| Low | pronounced as /link/ | ||
Nasalization extends from nasal consonants to the following vowels, continuing until blocked by an intonation break or a consonant other than a glottal stop:
pronounced as /[lamẽãĩʔĩ ãːsu]/ "A dog urinated on him."
pronounced as /[sassaʔ lamẽãĩʔĩ <nowiki>|</nowiki> ʔaːsu lataiːʔiʔi]|lang=sly}} "A lizard urinated on him, and a dog defecated on him."
| Bilabial | Coronal | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Plosive | prenasalized | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Lateral | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Rhotic | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
Of the coronals, the voiceless stop is dental, while the others are alveolar.
Selayarese intransitive verbs index pronominal arguments via an absolutive enclitic.[2]
In transitive verbs the less agent-like argument is indexed by the absolutive enclitic.