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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 ...
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.
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.
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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The three earliest known families of Mesoamerica are the Mixe–Zoquean languages, the Oto-Manguean languages and the Mayan languages. Proto-Oto-Manguean is thought to have been spoken in the Tehuacán valley between 5000 and 3000 BCE, [ 8 ] although it may only have been one center of Oto-manguean culture, another possible Oto-Manguean ...
The Languages of the Andes. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-36275-7. Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1. Dixon & Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (eds.), The Amazonian languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.