Tolai language









































Tolai
Kuanua
Tinata Tuna
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region
Gazelle Peninsula, East New Britain Province
Ethnicity Tolai
Native speakers
 (61,000 cited 1991)[1]
20,000 L2 speakers
Language family

Austronesian

  • Malayo-Polynesian

    • Oceanic

      • Western

        • Meso-Melanesian
          • (St George linkage)

            • Patpatar–Tolai
              • Tolai
Writing system
Latin script (Tolai alphabet)
Tolai Braille
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ksd
Glottolog
kuan1248[2]

The Tolai language, or Kuanua, is spoken by the Tolai people of Papua New Guinea, who live on the Gazelle Peninsula in East New Britain Province. (This language is often referred to in the literature as Tolai. However, Tolai is actually the name of the cultural group. The Tolais themselves refer to their language as a tinata tuna, which translates as "the real language". Kuanua is apparently a word in Ramoaaina meaning "the place over there".)




Contents






  • 1 Characteristics


  • 2 Classification


  • 3 Geographic distribution


    • 3.1 Derived languages




  • 4 Grammar


    • 4.1 Phonology


    • 4.2 Independent pronouns


    • 4.3 Syntax


    • 4.4 Morphology




  • 5 References


  • 6 External links





Characteristics





New Testaments in Tolai: A Buk Tabu Kalamana Ure Iesu Karisito: "The New Holy Book about Jesus Christ."


Unlike many languages in Papua New Guinea, Tolai is a healthy language and not in danger of dying out to Tok Pisin, although even Tolai suffers from a surfeit of loanwords from Tok Pisin, e.g. the original kubar has been completely usurped by the Tok Pisin braun for brown or the Tok Pisin vilivil for bicycle has replaced the former aingau. It is considered a prestigious language and is the primary language of communication in the two major centers of East New Britain: Kokopo and Rabaul.


Tolai lost the phoneme /s/. For instance, the word for 'sun' in closely related languages of South New Ireland is kesakese, and this has been reduced to keake in Tolai. However, /s/ has been reintroduced through numerous loanwords from English and Tok Pisin.



Classification


Tolai belongs to the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family. The most immediate subgroup is the Patpatar–Tolai group of languages which also includes Lungalunga (also spoken on the Gazelle Peninsula) and Patpatar (spoken on New Ireland).



Geographic distribution


Tolai is spoken on the Gazelle Peninsula in the East New Britain Province of Papua New Guinea.



Derived languages


Tolai is said to be one of the major substratum languages of Tok Pisin. Some common Tok Pisin vocabulary items that likely come from Tolai (or a closely related language) include:


aibika (from ibika) - Hibiscus manihot
buai - betelnut
diwai (from dawai) - tree, wood
guria - earthquake
kawawar (from kavavar) - ginger
kiau - egg
lapun - elderly person
liklik (from ikilik) - small
umben (from uben) - fishing net



Grammar



Phonology


Phonology of the Tolai language:[3]























































Consonant sounds


Labial
Alveolar
Velar

Plosive
voiceless
 p
 t
 k

voiced
 b
 d
 g

Nasal
 m
 n
 ŋ

Rhotic
r

Lateral
l

Fricative
 β
 s

Approximant
 (w)































Vowel sounds


Front
Central
Back

High
i
u

Mid
e
o

Low

a

Vowel sounds can also be realised as [ɪ, ɛ, ʌ, ɔ, ʊ].



Independent pronouns


Tolai pronouns have four number distinctions (singular, dual, trial and plural) and three person distinctions (first person, second person and third person) as well as an inclusive/exclusive distinction. There are no gender distinctions.






































Singular Dual Trial Plural
1st exclusive
iau
(I)
(a)mir
(he/she and I)
(a)mital
(both of them, and I)
avet
(all of them, and I)
1st inclusive
 -
dor
(thou and I)
datal
(both of you, and I)
dat
(all of you, and I)
2nd
u
(thou)
(a)mur
(you two)
(a)mutal
(you three)
avat
(you guys)
3rd
ia
(he/she)
dir
(they two)
dital
(they three)		 diat
(they)

The plural pronouns lose their final -t when used before a verb. 'Da vana!' - 'Let's go!', 'Pa ave gire.' - 'We didn't see.', 'Dia tar pot' - 'They have already arrived.'



Syntax


The usual word order of Tolai is SVO.



Morphology


There is an irregular pattern involving the prefix ni-, which changes a verb to a noun. Ordinarily, the prefix is added to the verb, as in laun "to live" → a nilaun "the life", ian "to eat" → a nian "the food", aring "to pray" → a niaring "the prayer". However, in some cases it becomes an infix ⟨in⟩: varubu "to fight" → a vinarubu "the fight", tata "to talk" → a tinata "the language", mamai "to chew betelnut" → a minamai "(a small supply of) betelnuts for chewing". This infix is inserted after the initial phoneme of the verb. It could also be described as the prefix ni- being added as a prefix, and the initial phoneme of the verb changing places with the n of the prefix.



References





  1. ^ Tolai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)


  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kuanua". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  3. ^ Franklin, Karl J. and Kerr, Harland B. and Beaumont, Clive H. 1974. Tolai Language Course.




  • Mosel, Ulrike. (1984). Tolai syntax and its historical development. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.


  • Lynch, John, Malcolm Ross & Terry Crowley. (2002). The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.



External links







  • Tolai Language Course

  • Language Museum page on Tolai

  • A number of collections in Paradisec include materials in Tolai









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