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Anutan Language
The Anuta language (or ''Anutan'', locally ''te taranga paka-Anuta'') is a Polynesian languages, Polynesian Samoic-Outlier languages, Outlier language from the island of Anuta in the Solomon Islands. It is closely related to the Tikopia language of the neighboring island of Tikopia, and it bears significant cultural influence from the island. The two languages have a high degree of mutual intelligibility, although Anutans can understand Tikopians better than the reverse. Anuta is generally regarded as Nuclear Polynesian languages, Nuclear Polynesian language, although it bears considerable Tongic languages, Tongic influence. In 1977, Richard Feinberg published a two-volume dictionary and basic grammar of the language. Phonology Anuta has an extremely small consonant inventory. This is as a result of several phoneme merger (phonology), mergers such as /f/ with /p/ and /s/ with /t/. Vowels have a short and long form. * fafine → papine (women, female) * vasa → vata (open s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, to the east of Papua New Guinea and north-west of Vanuatu. It has a land area of , and a population of approx. 700,000. Its capital, Honiara, is located on the largest island, Guadalcanal. The country takes its name from the wider area of the Solomon Islands (archipelago), which is a collection of Melanesian islands that also includes the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (currently a part of Papua New Guinea), but excludes the Santa Cruz Islands. The islands have been settled since at least some time between 30,000 and 28,800 BCE, with later waves of migrants, notably the Lapita people, mixing and producing the modern indigenous Solomon Islanders population. In 1568, the Spanish navigator Álvaro de Mendaña was the first European to visit them. Though not named by Mendaña, it is believed that the islands were called ''"the Solomons"'' by those who later rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |