Austronesian language spoken in the Solomon Islands
Nduke
Duke
Native to
Solomon Islands
Region
Kolombangara island
Native speakers
(2,300 cited 1999)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Northwest Solomonic
New Georgia – Ysabel
New Georgia
Nduke
Language codes
ISO 639-3
nke
Glottolog
duke1237
Duke (Nduke, pronounced N-doo-kay) is an Oceanic language now spoken by about 3,000 people on Kolombangara island, Solomon Islands. Duke is an exonymic name (not used by speakers themselves). Endonymic names (used by the speakers themselves) are Dughore (Ndughore) and Kolei. Dughore is also a name for an area in southwest Kolombangara, Kolei is the general bilateral address term specific to Nduke. A more recent alternative name is 'Kolombangara' (after the name of the island).
^Nduke at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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