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Between 60 and 70 languages are spoken in the Solomon Islands archipelago [1] which covers a broader area than the nation state of Solomon Islands, [2] and includes the island of Bougainville, which is an autonomous province of Papua New Guinea (PNG). The lingua franca of the archipelago is Pijin, and the official language in both countries is ...
The number of local languages listed for Solomon Islands is 74, of which 70 are living languages and 4 are extinct, according to Ethnologue, Languages of the World. [192] Western Oceanic languages (predominantly of the Southeast Solomonic group ) are spoken on the central islands.
Pages in category "Languages of the Solomon Islands" The following 76 pages are in this category, out of 76 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Ghari (also known as Gari, Tangarare, Sughu, and West Guadalcanal) is an Oceanic language spoken on Guadalcanal island of the Solomon Islands. The Vaturanga dialect has been used extensively in missionary and liturgical translations, leading linguist Arthur Capell to describe it as a mission/ecclesiastical language.
The literacy rate for ꞌAreꞌare is somewhere between 30% and 60% for first language speakers, and 25%–50% for second language learners. [1] There are also translated Bible portions into the language from 1957 to 2008. [1] ꞌAreꞌare is just one of seventy-one languages spoken in the Solomon Islands. It is estimated that at least seven ...
The Temotu languages, named after Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands, are a branch of Oceanic languages proposed in Ross & Næss (2007) to unify the Reefs – Santa Cruz languages with Utupua and Vanikoro, each a group of three related languages.
Pijin (Solomon Islands Pidgin) is a language spoken in Solomon Islands. It is closely related to Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea and Bislama of Vanuatu; the three varieties are sometimes considered to be dialects of a single Melanesian Pidgin language. It is also related to Torres Strait Creole of Torres Strait, though more distantly.
Mono (Solomon Islands) Mono , or Alu , is an Oceanic language of Solomon Islands reported to be spoken by 660 people on Treasury Island (Mono proper), 2,270 on Shortland Island (Alu dialect), and 14 on Fauro Island in 1999.