Nalögo language

Nalögo is an Oceanic language spoken on the island of Nendö or 'Santa Cruz', in the Solomon Islands. It used to be lumped together with Natügu under a single language called "Santa Cruz language"; but the two varieties were finally recognized to be two distinct languages.
Together, Nalögo, Natügu and Nanggu are the three indigenous languages of Nendö island.
Nalögo has been described by linguist Valentina Alfarano.

The language

The name Nalögo.

Like its neighbours Natügu and Nanggu, Nalögo was once thought to be dialects of a language labelled “Santa Cruz”; and the latter was long thought to be a Papuan language. In the 2000s however, it became clear that was shown to be a member of the Austronesian language family, like the rest of the Reefs – Santa Cruz languages.

Nalögo and Natügu are recognised as opposite ends of a dialect continuum. The Nalögo section of the dialect chain includes two named dialects, Nea and Nooli.

Alfarano's analysis counts 15 consonant phonemes. They are indicated here, with the orthography in :
Nalögo has the same consonants as those of neighbouring Natügu – with the addition of.
Prenasalized stops can optionally be realized as plain voiced consonants.

Nalögo has ten vowel phonemes:

These vowels can be nasalized; but Alfarano does not consider nasalization to be phonemic in the language.