Northwest Solomonic languages

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Oceanic languages subgroup language subgroup

The Northwest Solomonic languages are a subgroup of Oceanic languages spoken primarily in the northwestern Solomon Islands and nearby regions, known for their distinctive phonological and grammatical innovations within the Austronesian family.

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Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Oceanic languages subgroup → language subgroup →
hasDistinctiveFeature	complex pronominal systems → innovations in possessive constructions → innovations in verb morphology → innovative grammar within Oceanic → innovative phonology within Oceanic →
hasFamily	Austronesian →
hasGeographicDistribution	Bismarck Sea region →
hasLinguisticClassification	Northwest Solomonic branch of Oceanic →
hasMember	Bilua language → Blablanga language → Bugotu language → Cheke Holo language → Florida languages → Gela language → Hoava language → Kokota language → Lengo language → Marovo language → New Georgia languages → Roviana language → Simbo language → Vella Lavella language → Zabana language →
hasMorphologyType	moderately analytic →
hasReconstructionWork	Proto–Northwest Solomonic →
hasRegion	Central Solomon Islands → Choiseul region → New Georgia Islands → Santa Isabel Island → Western Province of Solomon Islands →
hasResearcher	Andrew Pawley → Malcolm Ross →
hasSoundChange	innovations from Proto-Oceanic →
hasStatus	mostly minority languages →
hasSubfamily	Malayo-Polynesian →
hasSubgroup	Oceanic →
hasTypology	predominantly SVO word order →
hasWritingSystem	Latin script (for some member languages) →
partOf	Central–Eastern Oceanic languages →
spokenIn	Bougainville region → Papua New Guinea → Solomon Islands → northwestern Solomon Islands →
studiedInField	Austronesian linguistics → historical linguistics →
subclassOf	Austronesian languages → Oceanic languages →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Meso-Melanesian languages ("New Ireland–Northwest Solomonic languages") → Meso-Melanesian languages → Western Oceanic languages →	hasSubgroup
Austronesian languages → Austronesian languages ("Northwest Solomonic languages subgroup") →	hasSubfamily
Southeast Solomonic languages →	geneticRelation
Northwest Solomonic languages ("Northwest Solomonic branch of Oceanic") →	hasLinguisticClassification
Northwest Solomonic languages ("Proto–Northwest Solomonic") →	hasReconstructionWork