Ghari (also known as Gari, Tangarare, Sughu, and West Guadalcanal) is an

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spoken on

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island of the

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. The Vaturanga dialect has been used extensively in missionary and liturgical translations, leading linguist

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to describe it as a mission/ecclesiastical language.

Phonology

The following is the Qae dialect:A Grammar of the Language of Vaturanga, Guadalcanal, British Solomon Islands
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Consonants

: ^{/sup>/ⁿt͡s/ in other dialects

^{/sup>/ⁿd͡z/ in other dialects

^{/sup> can be heard as a variation of across dialects.

Where it differs from the IPA, the orthography is written in angular brackets (''<>'').

Vowels

:

References

;Notes

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External links

Na Voihavo Matena na Hahani Tabu
online text of Anglican liturgy in Vaturanga, digitized by Richard Mammana
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vocabulary list of the Vaturanga dialect
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Swadesh list of Vaturanga
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full text of A Grammar of the Language of Vaturanga, Guadalcanal, British Solomon Islands
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map of languages of Guadalcanal

Guadalcanal languages
Languages of the Solomon Islands

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