Cheke Holo

E146931

Cheke Holo is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands, particularly on Santa Isabel Island.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Cheke Holo canonical 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
language
alternateName Maringe
Blablanga language
surface form: Maringe Lagoon language
belongsTo Maringe Lagoon area
continent Oceania
country Solomon Islands
endangermentStatus vulnerable
glottologName Cheke Holo self-link
hasDocumentation dictionary
grammatical description
text collections
hasDomain community communication
cultural practices
hasGlottocode chek1239
hasLexifierForLoanwords Biblical languages via missionization
English
Solomon Islands Pijin
hasLinguisticTypology head-initial language
prepositional language
hasMorphologicalType analytic
hasNeighboringLanguage Blablanga
Gao
Zabana
hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate 6000
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
simple consonant inventory
hasStressPattern penultimate stress
hasSyllableStructure predominantly CV
hasWordOrder SVO
ISO639-3Code mrn
isPartOf Southeast Solomonic languages
surface form: Solomons chain of Oceanic languages
languageFamily Austronesian languages
languageGroup Oceanic languages
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
languageSubgroup New Georgia–Ysabel languages
Northwest Solomonic languages
region Santa Isabel Province
spokenBy Cheke Holo people
spokenIn Solomon Islands
spokenOn Santa Isabel Island
usedIn local education
oral tradition
religious contexts
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Cheke Holo glottologName Cheke Holo self-link
Zabana hasNeighboringLanguage Cheke Holo
Bughotu hasNeighboringLanguage Cheke Holo