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Olrat is a moribund Oceanic language spoken on Gaua island in Vanuatu. The three remaining speakers of Olrat live on the middle-west coast of Gaua.〔(List of Banks islands languages ).〕 They merged into the larger village of Jōlap where Lakon is dominant, after they left their inland hamlet of Olrat in the first half of the 20th century.〔.〕 Alexandre François identifies Olrat as a distinct language from its immediate neighbor Lakon, on phonological, grammatical, and lexical grounds. ==Phonology== Olrat has 14 phonemic vowels. These include 7 short /i ɪ ɛ a ɔ ʊ u/ and 7 long vowels /iː ɪː ɛː aː ɔː ʊː uː/.〔, .〕 Historically, the phonologization of vowel length originates in the compensatory lengthening of short vowels when the voiced velar fricative // was lost syllable-finally.〔.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Olrat language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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