Arosi language

E167421

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

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Arosi language canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
alternateName Arosi
Arosi of Makira
linked to: Vangunu
belongsTo Southeast Solomonic subgroup
continent Oceania
country Solomon Islands
glottologName Arosi
hasDialects Arosi dialects
hasDocumentation Bible translations
grammatical descriptions
lexicons
hasDomain vernacular education (limited)
hasEthnicGroup Arosi people
hasGlottocode aros1247
hasLinguisticTypology head-initial language
hasMorphologicalType moderately agglutinative
hasPhonemeInventory five-vowel system (typical for Oceanic)
small to moderate consonant inventory
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported in some descriptions)
hasStatus local language in Solomon Islands
influencedBy Solomon Islands Pijin (lexical borrowing)
ISO639-3Code aia
isPartOf Solomonic languages area
linked to: Solomonic languages
languageBranch Oceanic
languageFamily Austronesian
languageGroup Southeast Solomonic languages
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian
lexicalSimilarityWith other Southeast Solomonic languages
neighboringLanguage Owa language
linked to: Kwaio language

Sa'a language
region Makira-Ulawa Province
spokenIn Makira Island NERFINISHED
Melanesia
Solomon Islands
usedFor daily communication
religious practice
traditional narratives
wordOrder SVO
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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