Arosi

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Arosi is an Oceanic Austronesian language spoken primarily on Makira Island in the Solomon Islands.

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Label Occurrences
Arosi canonical 5

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
language
country Solomon Islands
hasAlternativeName Arosi language
hasAncestor Proto-Austronesian
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
Proto-Oceanic
hasConsonantInventorySize small to moderate
hasDomain linguistics
hasDomainOfUse daily communication
local religious activities
traditional narratives
hasGeographicDistribution eastern Makira Island
hasGrammaticalFeature inclusive–exclusive distinction in first person plural pronouns
preposed articles
prepositions rather than postpositions
subject markers on verbs
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom English
Solomon Islands Pijin
hasLinguisticTypology SVO word order
hasMorphologicalType moderately agglutinative
hasNeighboringLanguage Bauro
Fagani
Sa'a
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (limited)
hasSyllableStructure predominantly CV
hasVowelInventorySize five-vowel system
isDocumentedIn descriptive grammars
wordlists
isEndangeredStatus vulnerable
isMinorityLanguageIn Solomon Islands
iso639-3Code aia
isPartOf Southeast Solomonic languages
isSpokenBy Arosi people
isUsedAlongside English in education contexts
Solomon Islands Pijin
languageFamily Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Southeast Solomonic
region Makira Island
spokenIn Solomon Islands
spokenOn Makira-Ulawa Province
spokenPrimarilyOn Makira Island
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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