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 (1)

Label Occurrences
Ghanongga language canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (35)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
language
continent Oceania
country Solomon Islands
ethnicity Ghanongga people NERFINISHED
family Austronesian NERFINISHED
geographicArea New Georgia Islands group NERFINISHED
group Oceanic
hasAlternativeName Ghanongga NERFINISHED
Ghanongga (New Georgia) NERFINISHED
Ghanongga (Solomon Islands) NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
languageFamily Austronesian languages
locatedIn Melanesia
nativeSpeakers a few thousand
partOf New Georgia languages NERFINISHED
Northwest Solomonic languages NERFINISHED
region New Georgia Island NERFINISHED
spokenIn New Georgia Island NERFINISHED
Western Province, Solomon Islands NERFINISHED
status local language
minority language
subclassOf New Georgia language
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED
subgroup New Georgia – Ysabel NERFINISHED
Northwest Solomonic NERFINISHED
usedAlongside English
Solomon Islands Pijin NERFINISHED
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Referenced by (3)

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