Blanga

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Blanga is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on the island of Santa Isabel in the Solomon Islands.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
language
belongsTo Santa Isabel languages
country Solomon Islands
endangermentStatus vulnerable
ethnicity Blanga people NERFINISHED
geographicDistribution coastal villages of Santa Isabel
northwestern Santa Isabel Island NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Blablanga NERFINISHED
Blablanga language NERFINISHED
Blanga language NERFINISHED
hasDialects northern Blanga
southern Blanga
hasDomainRestriction home and village domains
hasLinguisticResearch descriptive grammar studies
lexicographic work
phonological analysis
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive prenasalized stops
small vowel inventory
hasSpeakerCommunity rural communities
influencedBy English
Solomon Islands Pijin NERFINISHED
iso639-3Code blp
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED
Northwest Solomonic languages NERFINISHED
Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
languageShiftTowards English NERFINISHED
Solomon Islands Pijin NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguage Cheke Holo NERFINISHED
Kokota NERFINISHED
Zabana NERFINISHED
notWidelyUsedIn formal education
national media
region Santa Isabel Province NERFINISHED
spokenIn Solomon Islands NERFINISHED
spokenOn Santa Isabel Island NERFINISHED
status minority language
subclassOf Northwest Solomonic language NERFINISHED
typologicalFeature SVO word order
phonemic vowel length absent
prepositional language
usedFor everyday communication
local trade
traditional oral literature
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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