Ghari language

Ghari
Region	Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
Native speakers	12,000 (1999)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southeast Solomonic Gela–Guadalcanal Guadalcanal Ghari
Dialects	7,100 Ghari 3,000 Ndi (Vaturanga) 950 Gae (Nggae, Qae) 550 Tandai-Nggaria (Tanaghai) 490 Nginia Geri (Nggeri)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gri
Glottolog	ghar1239[2]

Ghari (also known as Gari, Tangarare, Sughu, and West Guadalcanal) is an Oceanic language spoken on Guadalcanal island of the Solomon Islands.

The Vaturanga dialect has been used extensively in missionary and liturgical translations, leading linguist Arthur Capell to describe it as a mission/ecclesiastical language.

References

1. Ghari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ghari". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

• Ivens, W. G. (1934). "A Grammar of the Language of Vaturanga, Guadalcanal, British Solomon Islands". Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London 7 (2): 349–375. doi:10.1017/s0041977x0008527x.

External links

• Na Voihavo Matena na Hahani Tabu online text of Anglican liturgy in Vaturanga, digitized by Richard Mammana