View source for Gela Language (nlg)


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        <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Florida Islands,Nggela


<b>Description:</b>

Gela is a Southeast Solomonic language spoken in three dialects on four islands in the central Solomon Islands. Each of the dialects is very similar, differing mainly on a small number of phonological points.
Gela uses the following consonant phonemes:
Gela uses i, e, a, o, u with no contrastive vowel length.
Stress generally occurs on each word's penultimate syllable.<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=1918284 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
        <tr><td><h2>Location of Gela Language Speakers</h2>
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        <tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2>
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<tr><td>Genesis Translation:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_nlg_gen-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_nlg_gen-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/solomon_islands Solomon Islands]</td></tr>

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<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/oceania Oceania] 
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>nlg</td></tr>

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      <tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Austronesian Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Malayo-Polynesian Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Central-Eastern Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Oceanic Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Central-Eastern Oceanic Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Southeast Solomonic Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Gela-Guadalcanal Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Gela Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>[[Gela Language]]</b>

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