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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.
3DU aura 3DU lolo-'i-a catch- TRS - 3SG mola just na PERF m-arua CONJ - 3DU tole-a lead- 3SG na PERF vu to asi sea ngaia 3SG mwela-geni-i child-woman- SG girua aura lolo-'i-a mola na m-arua tole-a na vu asi ngaia mwela-geni-i 3DU 3DU catch-TRS-3SG just PERF CONJ-3DU lead-3SG PERF to sea 3SG child-woman-SG "They both just caught her and they both took this girl to the sea." (2) m-i CONJ - ART ...
Talise is a Southeast Solomonic language native to Guadalcanal with a speaker population of roughly 13,000. While some consider Talise to be its own language, others use it as a blanket term to group the closely related dialects of Poleo, Koo, Malagheti, Moli, and Tolo.
The status of the Reefs – Santa Cruz languages were once thought to be non-Austronesian, but further research found them to be divergent Austronesian languages. [4] The neighbouring languages of Vanikoro are also heavily relexified Austronesian languages. [5] An indigenous sign language, Rennellese Sign Language, has gone extinct.
American authorities declared Guadalcanal secure on 9 February 1943. The Guadalcanal campaign was a major turning point in the war, as it stopped further Japanese expansion. Two U.S. Navy ships have been named for the campaign: USS Guadalcanal was a World War II escort carrier. USS Guadalcanal was an amphibious assault ship.
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This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties , and so they are sometimes considered language families instead.
Honiara (/ ˌ h oʊ n i ˈ ɑːr ə /) is the capital and largest city of Solomon Islands, situated on the northwestern coast of Guadalcanal.As of 2021, it had a population of 92,344 people.