Northwest Solomonic region

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The Northwest Solomonic region is a linguistic area in the northwestern Solomon Islands and nearby parts of Papua New Guinea known for its cluster of related Oceanic languages studied within Austronesian linguistics.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf language area
linguistic area
associatedWith Austronesian languages NERFINISHED
Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
characterizedBy geographically contiguous Oceanic languages
shared structural features among local Oceanic languages
fieldOfStudy areal linguistics
comparative Austronesian linguistics
historical linguistics
hasDiscipline linguistics
hasHigherClassification Austronesian language family NERFINISHED
hasLanguageFamily Oceanic
hasLinguisticFeature cluster of related Oceanic languages
hasSubdiscipline Austronesian linguistics NERFINISHED
Oceanic linguistics NERFINISHED
hasSubregion nearby parts of Papua New Guinea
northwestern Solomon Islands NERFINISHED
languageGroupType areal grouping of Oceanic languages
locatedIn Melanesia
Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED
northwestern Solomon Islands
partOf Oceania NERFINISHED
relevantFor reconstruction of Oceanic language history
study of contact-induced change in Oceanic languages
studiedIn Austronesian linguistics

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Malcolm Ross regionOfStudy Northwest Solomonic region