Ghanongga language

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The Ghanongga language is an Oceanic language spoken by indigenous communities on New Georgia Island in the Solomon Islands.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Ghanongga language canonical 5
Ghanongga (language) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (35)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
language
continent Oceania
country Solomon Islands
ethnicity Ghanongga people
family Austronesian
geographicArea New Georgia Islands group
linked to: New Georgia Islands
group Oceanic
hasAlternativeName Ghanongga
Ghanongga (New Georgia)
Ghanongga (Solomon Islands)
hasLinguisticFeature shares features with neighboring New Georgia languages
hasMorphology typical Austronesian-type morphology
hasTypology likely SVO word order
ISO639-3 ghn
isSpokenBy indigenous communities on New Georgia Island
languageBranch Oceanic languages
languageFamily Austronesian languages
locatedIn Melanesia
nativeSpeakers a few thousand
partOf New Georgia languages
Northwest Solomonic languages
region New Georgia Island
linked to: New Georgia Islands
spokenIn New Georgia Island
linked to: New Georgia Islands

Western Province, Solomon Islands
status local language
minority language
subclassOf New Georgia language
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian
subgroup New Georgia – Ysabel
Northwest Solomonic
usedAlongside English
Solomon Islands Pijin
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

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

New Georgia languages hasMember Ghanongga language
Roviana language closelyRelatedTo Ghanongga language
New Georgia hasLanguage Ghanongga language
Marovo language isRelatedTo Ghanongga language
Ghanongga hasAlternativeName Ghanongga language
Ghanongga hasAlternativeName Ghanongga (language)
linked to: Ghanongga language