Southeast Solomonic languages

Southeast Solomonic
Geographic; distribution	Solomon Islands
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Central–Eastern Southeast Solomonic; ; ; ;
Subdivisions	Gela–Guadalcanal; Malaita – San Cristobal;
Glottolog	sout2853[1]
	Southeast Solomons

The family of Southeast Solomonic languages forms a branch of the Oceanic languages. It consists of some 26 languages covering the South East Solomon Islands, from the tip of Santa Isabel to Makira. The fact that there is little diversity amongst these languages, compared to groups of similar size in Melanesia, suggests that they dispersed in the relatively recent past.[2] Bugotu is one of the most conservative languages.

Languages

According to Lynch, Ross, & Crowley (2002), the structure of the family is as follows:[3]

Bugotu–Gela–Guadalcanal family
- Bughotu (Bugotu)
- Gela–Guadalcanal family
  - Gelic: Lengo, Gela
  - Guadalcanal: Birao, Ghari, Malango, Talise
Longgu–Malaita–Makira family
- Longgu
- Malaita–Makira family
  - Sa'a
  - Makira (San Cristobal): Arosi, Fagani, Bauro, Kahua–Owa, ?Marau Wawa
  - Malaita
    - Central–North Malaita: North (To'abaita, Baelelea, Baeggu, Fataleka), Lau, Kwara'ae, Wala, Gula'alaa, Kwaio, Dori'o
    - Southern Malaita: 'Are'are, Marau, Oroha

Basic vocabulary

Basic vocabulary in many Southeast Solomonic languages are aberrant, and many forms do not have Proto-Oceanic cognates.[4] Below, Gela and Arosi are compared with three other Northwest Solomonic languages. Aberrant forms are in italics.

English	arm	ear	liver	bone	skin	louse
Proto-Oceanic	*lima	*taliŋa	*qate	*suRi	*kulit	*kutu
Ririo	karisi	ŋgel	tutuen	punda	kapat	utu
Zabana	kame	taliŋa	kola	huma	kafu	gutu
Maringe	lima	khuli	khebu	knubra	guli	theli
Gela	lima	kuli	ate	huli	gui-guli	gutu
Arosi	rima	kariŋa	rogo	su-suri	ʔuri-ʔuri	kote

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References

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Southeast Solomonic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Lynch, John, Malcolm Ross & Terry Crowley. 2002. The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.
Lynch, John; Malcolm Ross; Terry Crowley (2002). The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon. ISBN 978-0-7007-1128-4. OCLC 48929366.
Pawley, Andrew. Explaining the Aberrant Austronesian Languages of Southeast Melanesia: 150 Years of Debate. Journal of the Polynesian Society, The, Vol. 115, No. 3, Sept 2006: 215-258.

Southeast Solomonic languages

Languages

Basic vocabulary

References

Further reading