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The Touo language, also known as Baniata (Mbaniata) or Lokuru, is spoken over the southern part of Rendova Island, located in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands.

Touo
Baniata
Native to	Solomon Islands
Region	southern Rendova Island, Western Province
Native speakers	1,900 (1999 census)[1]
Language family	Central Solomons Touo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tqu
Glottolog	touo1238
ELP	Touo

Classification

Touo is generally seen to be a member of the tentative Central Solomons family, although Glottolog considers it an isolate. Pedrós (2015) cautiously suggests Lavukaleve as the closest relative to Touo. Most of the surrounding languages to Touo belong to the Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian language family.

Names

The Touo language is sometimes called the Baniata (Mbaniata) or Lokuru language, after the largest two villages where the language is spoken.[2] The word Touo comes from the ethnonym that Touo speakers use to refer to themselves.

Phonology

Consonants

Touo consonants are:[3]^: 869

		labial	alveolar	velar	glottal
nasal		m	n	ŋ
stop	voiceless	(p)	t	(k)
	voiced	b	d	ɡ ⟨q⟩
fricative	voiceless	f	s		h
	voiced	v	z
approximant				ɰ ⟨g⟩
liquid			l

Vowels

Touo vowels have phonemically contrastive tense/lax vowels. Some minimal pairs showing the tense/lax vowel phonemic distinction in Touo:[3]

e	road	ḛ	oven
avo	garden	a̰vo	four
ua	who?	ṵa	eat
isi	small	ḭsi	sleep

Grammar

Word order in Touo is SOV.[3]

Touo has four genders.[3]

• masculine
• feminine
• neuter I (generic)
• neuter II (certain trees)

Only in certain paradigms of the singular number can neuter I and II be distinguished.

Touo distinguishes four numbers.[3]

• singular
• dual
• enumerated (i.e., numerically specified; can be used for both few or many numbers)
• non-enumerated (i.e., not numerically specified; used for numbers greater than three)

See also

• Tetepare language

Notes

• Paradisec has two collections of Arthur Cappell's materials (AC1, AC2) that include Touo language materials.

References

• Dunn, Michael (2005). "Vernacular Literacy in the Touo Language of the Solomon Islands". Current Issues in Language Planning. 6 (2): 239–250. doi:10.1080/14664200508668283. S2CID 130210017.
• Terrill, Angela; Dunn, Michael (2003). "Orthographic design in the Solomon Islands: The social, historical, and linguistic situation of Touo (Baniata)". Written Language & Literacy. 6 (2): 177–192. doi:10.1075/wll.6.2.03ter.

На других языках

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- [en] Touo language

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[fr] Touo

Le touo est une langue papoue parlée aux Salomon par 1 870 locuteurs, au sud de Rendova, dans la Province occidentale. Elle est aussi appelée Baniata, Lokuru, Mbaniata. Ses locuteurs emploient aussi le pijin, le marovo ou le roviana.

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[ru] Тоуо

Тоуо (также известен как баниата, локуру, мбаниата) — папуасский язык, на котором говорят в южной части острова Рендова. Тоуо принадлежит к центральносоломонской группе папуасской семьи языков. Все окружающие его языки принадлежат к океанийской подгруппе австронезийской языковой семьи.

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