Guliguli language
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| Guliguli | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Solomon Islands | |
| Region: | New Georgia | |
| Total speakers: | extinct [1] | |
| Language family: | perhaps Kazukuru language Guliguli |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | paa | |
| ISO 639-3: | gli | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Guliguli is an extinct language that was allegedly once spoken on the western slopes of Mt Vinaroni, New Georgia, Solomon Islands. The linguist Karen Davis is skeptical that Guliguli ever existed, since the word guliguli has an obscene meaning in the neighboring Hoava language, and there is no memory among Hoava speakers of a neighboring language with that name. Guliguli was probably either a dialect of the extinct Kazukuru language, or a naive transcription of (the main dialect of) Kazukuru, or even a hoax.
[edit] References
- Peter Lanyon-Orgill (1953). 'The Papuan languages of the New Georgian Archipelago, Solomon Islands.' Journal of Austronesian Studies 1, 122-138
- Karen Davis (2003). A Grammar of the Hoava Language, Western Solomons. Canberra, Pacific Linguistics.
- Michael Dunn and Malcolm Ross (2007). 'Is Kazukuru really non-Austronesian?' Oceanic Linguistics 46: 210-231.
