Central Solomons languages
- Central Solomons languages
Infobox Language family
name=Central Solomons
region=Solomon Islands
familycolor=Papuan
family=a primary family of Papuan languages
child1="Bilua"
child2="Touo"
child3="Lavukaleve"
child4="Savosavo"
map_caption=Language families of the Solomon Islands.
Red: North Bougainville.
Blue: South Bougainville.
Green: Central Solomons.
Grey: Austronesian.
Orange: Yele (out of area)The Central Solomons languages are four distantly but demonstrably related languages of the Solomon Islands. They were classified as East Papuan languages by Wurm, but this does not now seem tenable.
The four languages are Bilua of Vella Lavella and Ghizo Islands, Touo (also known as "Baniata)" of Rendova Island, Lavukaleve of the Russell Islands, and Savosavo of Savo Island.
Pronouns
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Central Solomons are,
:
ee also
*Papuan languages
*East Papuan languages
References
*"Structural Phylogenetics and the Reconstruction of Ancient Language History". Michael Dunn, Angela Terrill, Ger Reesink, Robert A. Foley, Stephen C. Levinson. "Science" magazine, 23 Sept. 2005, vol. 309, p 2072.
* Malcom Ross (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages." In: Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide and Jack Golson, eds, "Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples," 15-66. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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