Langalanga language

Wala
Wala
Langalanga
Region	Solomon Islands
Native speakers	(7,000 cited 1999)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southeast Solomonic Malaita – San Cristobal Malaita Northern Malaita Wala; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lgl
Glottolog	wala1266

Last updated November 01, 2025

Wala, or Langalanga, is an Oceanic language spoken on Malaita, in the Solomon Islands.^[2]

References

↑ Wala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
↑ Lovegren, Mitchell & Nakagawa (2015).

Bibliography

Lovegren, Jesse; Mitchell, Alice; Nakagawa, Natsuko (2015). The Wala language of Malaita, Solomon Islands (PDF). Studies in the Languages of Island Melanesia. Asia-Pacific linguistics. ISBN 978-1-922185-14-3 . Retrieved 1 August 2022.

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[e18-1] Wala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[Lovegren-2] Lovegren, Mitchell & Nakagawa (2015).

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Wala
Langalanga
Region	Solomon Islands
Native speakers	(7,000 cited 1999)^[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southeast Solomonic Malaita – San Cristobal Malaita Northern Malaita Wala
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`lgl`
Glottolog	`wala1266`