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Sikaiana
Native to
Solomon Islands
Region
Sikaiana
Native speakers
(730 cited 1999)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Polynesian
Ellicean
Sikaiana
Language codes
ISO 639-3
sky
Glottolog
sika1261
Sikaiana is a Polynesian language, spoken by about 730 people on Sikaiana in the Solomon Islands.
^Sikaiana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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