Arosi language

E167421

The Arosi language is an Oceanic language spoken primarily on Makira Island in the Solomon Islands.

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Arosi language canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
alternateName Arosi
Vangunu
surface form: Arosi of Makira
belongsTo Southeast Solomonic languages
surface form: Southeast Solomonic subgroup
continent Oceania
country Solomon Islands
glottologName Arosi
hasDialects Arosi dialects
hasDocumentation Bible translations
grammatical descriptions
lexicons
hasDomain vernacular education (limited)
hasEthnicGroup Arosi people
hasGlottocode aros1247
hasLinguisticTypology head-initial language
hasMorphologicalType moderately agglutinative
hasPhonemeInventory five-vowel system (typical for Oceanic)
small to moderate consonant inventory
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported in some descriptions)
hasStatus local language in Solomon Islands
influencedBy Solomon Islands Pijin (lexical borrowing)
ISO639-3Code aia
isPartOf Solomonic languages
surface form: Solomonic languages area
languageBranch Oceanic
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian
languageGroup Southeast Solomonic languages
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
surface form: Malayo-Polynesian
lexicalSimilarityWith other Southeast Solomonic languages
neighboringLanguage Kwaio language
surface form: Owa language

Sa'a language
region Makira-Ulawa Province
spokenIn Makira Island NERFINISHED
Melanesia
Solomon Islands
usedFor daily communication
religious practice
traditional narratives
wordOrder SVO
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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