Lengoʼ

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Lengoʼ is an Oceanic language spoken by communities in the Solomon Islands, particularly on parts of Guadalcanal.

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Lengoʼ canonical 1

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Statements (36)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
natural language
belongsTo Central-Eastern Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
country Solomon Islands
geographicDistribution central Guadalcanal
northwestern Guadalcanal coast
hasAlternativeName Lengo NERFINISHED
Nggella Lengo NERFINISHED
hasDomain indigenous culture of Guadalcanal
hasLinguisticFeature inclusive–exclusive distinction in first person plural pronouns
possessive classifiers
prepositions rather than case marking
hasMorphology agglutinative features
hasPhonology contrastive vowel length
simple consonant inventory
hasTypology SVO word order
iso639-3Code lgr
isPartOf Southeast Solomons linguistic area NERFINISHED
languageFamily Austronesian languages
neighboringLanguage Gela NERFINISHED
Ghari NERFINISHED
Talise NERFINISHED
region Guadalcanal Province NERFINISHED
spokenBy Lengo people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Solomon Islands NERFINISHED
spokenOn Guadalcanal NERFINISHED
status local community language in Solomon Islands
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
Southeast Solomonic languages NERFINISHED
usedAlongside English NERFINISHED
Solomon Islands Pijin NERFINISHED
usedFor everyday communication
traditional oral narratives
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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