The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It was superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). See also the corresponding entry in the current edition of Ethnologue.
SIL code: NLG
ISO 639-2: map
| Population | 10,000 (1998 SIL). |
| Region | Gela, Florida Islands, Guadalcanal (immigrants), and Savo Islands, central Solomons. |
| Alternate names | NGGELA, FLORIDA ISLANDS |
| Classification | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Southeast Solomonic, Gela-Guadalcanal, Gela. |
| Comments | Similar to Lengo in north Guadalcanal. Literacy rate in first language: 30% to 60%. Literacy rate in second language: 25% to 50%. Subsistence agriculturalists: root vegetables, coconut; fishermen; copra production. Christian. NT 1923. |
