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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/. * fafine → (women, female) * vasa → (open sea, ocean) * lahi → (big) The allophonic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Prados, ''Islands of Destiny'', Dutton Caliber, 2012, p,20 and passim is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 1000 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, to the northeast of Australia. It is directly adjacent to Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Bougainville, a part of Papua New Guinea to the west, Australia to the southwest, New Caledonia and Vanuatu to the southeast, Fiji, Wallis and Futuna, and Tuvalu to the east, and Nauru and the Federated States of Micronesia to the north. It has a total area of 28,896 square kilometres (11,157 sq mi), and a population of 734,887 according to the official estimates for mid-2023. Its capital and largest city, Honiara, is located on the largest island, Guadalcanal. The country takes its name from the wider area of the Solomon Islands (archipelago), Solomon Islands archipelago, which is a collection of Melanesian islands that also includes the Autonomous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
