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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 ...
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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.
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.
For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world. 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 ...
notes by Johann Flierl, Wilhelm Poland and Georg Schwarz, culminating in Walter Roth's The Structure of the Koko Yimidir Language in 1901. [207] [208] A list of 61 words recorded in 1770 by James Cook and Joseph Banks was the first written record of an Australian language. [209] 1891: Galela: grammatical sketch by M.J. van Baarda [210] 1893: Oromo
The most widely spoken Austronesian language is Halia and its dialects, spoken in the island of Buka and the Selau peninsula of Northern Bougainville. Other Austronesian languages include Nehan, Petats, Solos, Saposa (Taiof), Hahon and Tinputz, all spoken in the northern quarter of Bougainville, Buka and surrounding islands. These languages are ...