Region Santa Isabel Island Glottolog chek1238 | ISO 639-3 mrn | |
Native speakers 10,800 (1999)1,500 monolinguals (1999?) Language family AustronesianMalayo-PolynesianOceanicNorthwest SolomonicNew Georgia – YsabelYsabelEast IsabelCheke Holo | ||
Cheke Holo (also called Maringe or Marine, A’ara, Holo, Kubonitu) is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands. Its speakers live on Santa Isabel Island.
Phonology
The phonology of Cheke Holo shows some peculiarities, shared with other Santa Isabel languages, like the aspirated stops and the voiceless sonorants. The five-vowel system instead conforms to the prototypical system of the Oceanic area (White, Kokhonigita & Pulomana 1988).
References
Cheke Holo language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA