Halia is an Austronesian language of

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and the

Selau Peninsula Selau is a district of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. Generally it is known as Selau-Suir Rural LLG ( Local Level Government) which is one of the districts in Bougainville. The name Selau also represents the language of ...

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Phonology

The phonology of the Halia language:

Consonants

Vowels

Diphthong vowel sounds include /ei, au, ou/. exists, but not as a monophthong.

Allophones

Literature

In the 1960s

Francis Hagai Francis Hagai (c. 1940 – 7 July 1974) was the leader of the Hahalis Welfare Society (HWS) on Buka Island, in what is now the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. He received a Catholic education but later sought to establish ...

produced a series of liturgies in Halia as part of his work with the

Hahalis Welfare Society The Hahalis Welfare Society was a Nativism (politics), nativist movement on Buka Island, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. The movement began in 1960 and was most active in the '60s and '70s. At its peak, the Society numbered ...

References

External links

* Written materials on Halia are available at

Kaipuleohone Kaipuleohone is a digital ethnographic archive that houses audio and visual files, photographs, as well as hundreds of textual material such as notes, dictionaries, and transcriptions relating to small and endangered languages. The archive is stored ...

under 'Selau' Northwest Solomonic languages Languages of Papua New Guinea Languages of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville {{MesoMelanesian-lang-stub