Solos language

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Solos
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Buka Island, Bougainville
Native speakers
15,000 (2022) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sol
Glottolog solo1257

Solos is an Austronesian language of Buka Island in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea.

Approximately 15,000 people (2022) are estimated to speak Solos as a first language out of an ethnic population of about 17,000 (2022). [2]

Alphabet

Solos uses an adapted Latin alphabet of 22 characters, [3] five of which are vowels, two are digraphs, and one is the saltillo symbol, which in practical writing and typing is often expressed as a simple apostrophe. The letters are (vowels in bold):

a, b, d, e, g, h, i, k, l, m, n, ng, o, p, r, s, t, ts, u, w, y, ꞌ

⟨ng⟩ is used for /ŋ/, ⟨ts⟩ is used for /tʃ/, and ⟨ꞌ⟩ is used for the glottal stop /ʔ/. The other letters are phonetic.

References

  1. ↑ Solos at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021) Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  2. ↑ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2024). "Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Twenty-seventh edition".
  3. ↑ Doyle, Larry (2021). "Organised Phonology Data: Solos [sol]" . Retrieved 21 Jan 2025.


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