| 词条 | Tolai language | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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|name=Tolai |altname=Kuanua |nativename=Tinata Tuna |states=Papua New Guinea |region=Gazelle Peninsula, East New Britain Province |ethnicity=Tolai |speakers= 61,000 |date= 1991 |ref=e18 |speakers2=20,000 L2 speakers |familycolor=Austronesian |fam2=Malayo-Polynesian |fam3=Oceanic |fam4=Western |fam5=Meso-Melanesian |fam6=(St George linkage) |fam7=Patpatar–Tolai |iso3=ksd |glotto=kuan1248 |glottorefname=Kuanua |script=Latin script (Tolai alphabet) Tolai Braille }} 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".) CharacteristicsUnlike 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. ClassificationTolai 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 distributionTolai is spoken on the Gazelle Peninsula in the East New Britain Province of Papua New Guinea. Derived languagesTolai 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 manihotbuai - 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 GrammarPhonologyPhonology of the Tolai language:[1]
Vowel sounds can also be realised as [ɪ, ɛ, ʌ, ɔ, ʊ]. Independent pronounsTolai 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.
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.' SyntaxThe usual word order of Tolai is SVO. MorphologyThere 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 {{angbr|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. References1. ^Franklin, Karl J. and Kerr, Harland B. and Beaumont, Clive H. 1974. Tolai Language Course.
External links{{Wiktionary|Category:Tolai lemmas}}
3 : Meso-Melanesian languages|Languages of East New Britain Province|Subject–verb–object languages |
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