Bughotu

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Bughotu is an Austronesian language spoken by communities on Santa Isabel Island in the Solomon Islands.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Bughotu canonical 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (32)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
language
continent Oceania
country Solomon Islands
glottologCode bugh1237
glottologName Bughotu self-link
hasAlternativeName Bugotu language
surface form: Bughotu language

Bugotu
Bugotu language
hasLinguisticArea Melanesian linguistic area
surface form: Solomons linguistic area
hasMorphologicalType moderately agglutinative
hasNeighboringLanguage Blablanga
Cheke Holo
Gao
Zabana
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported for some Oceanic languages; specific status in Bughotu may vary)
hasTypology SVO word order
iso639-3Code bgt
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian

Malayo-Polynesian languages
surface form: Malayo-Polynesian

Northwest Solomonic languages
surface form: Northwest Solomonic

Oceanic
locatedInTimeZone UTC+11
region Melanesia
spokenBy Bugotu people
surface form: Bughotu people
spokenIn Santa Isabel Island
Solomon Islands
subclassOf Northwest Solomonic languages
surface form: Northwest Solomonic language

Oceanic language
usedIn community communication on Santa Isabel Island
local church activities on Santa Isabel Island
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Referenced by (5)

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

Bugotu hasAlternativeName Bughotu
Bughotu glottologName Bughotu self-link