'Are'are language
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| 'Are'are | ||
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| Spoken in: | southern Malaita, Solomon Islands | |
| Total speakers: | 17,800 (1999) | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Central-Eastern MP Eastern MP Oceanic Central-Eastern Oceanic Southeast Solomonic Malaita-San Cristobal Malaita Southern Malaita 'Are'are |
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| Writing system: | the writing system(s) used to represent the language | |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | — | |
| ISO 639-3: | alu
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The 'Are'are language is spoken by the 'Are'are people, on the southern part of Malaita island, as well as nearby South Malaita Island and the eastern shore of Guadalcanal (the Marau Sound, 60 km away), in the Solomon Islands archipelago. It is spoken by 17,800[1], which makes them the second largest language in the Solomons after the Kwara'ae (also from Malaita). The language belongs to the larger Austronesian family of languages as do all other ten dialects on of Malaita.
It is divided into two dialects, 'Are'are and Marau (spoken in Marau Sound).
According to Ethnologue, the literacy rate is somewhere between 30-60%. The language typology is Agent Verb Object.
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