| Ghari | |
| Region: | Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands |
| Date: | 1999 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
| Fam3: | Oceanic |
| Fam4: | Southeast Solomonic |
| Fam5: | Gela–Guadalcanal |
| Fam6: | Guadalcanal |
| Dia1: | Ghari |
| Dia2: | Ndi (Vaturanga) |
| Dia3: | 950 Gae (Nggae, Qae) |
| Dia4: | 550 Tandai-Nggaria (Tanaghai) |
| Dia5: | 490 Nginia |
| Dia6: | Geri (Nggeri) |
| Iso3: | gri |
| Glotto: | ghar1239 |
| Glottorefname: | Ghari |
| Also Known As: | Gari |
Ghari (also known as Gari, Tangarare, Sughu, and West Guadalcanal) is an Oceanic language spoken on Guadalcanal island of the Solomon Islands.
The Vaturanga dialect has been used extensively in missionary and liturgical translations, leading linguist Arthur Capell to describe it as a mission/ecclesiastical language.
The following is the Qae dialect:[1] [2]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ (ng) | ||||
| Stop/ Affricate | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/[a] (j) | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| prenasal | pronounced as /link/ (b) | pronounced as /link/ (d) | pronounced as /link/[b] (z) | pronounced as /link/ (ngg) | |||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ (v) | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ (h) | (pronounced as /link/)[c] | |||
| Lateral | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Rhotic | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
[b]/ⁿd͡z/ in other dialects
[c]pronounced as /[h]/ can be heard as a variation of pronounced as //ɣ// across dialects.
Where it differs from the IPA, the orthography is written in angular brackets (<>).
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Low | pronounced as /link/ |