Fataleka
A language of Solomon Islands
| Population | 6,700 (1999 SIL). |
| Region | Malaita Island. |
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| Dialects | Wurm and Hattori (1981) treat it as a dialect of To’abaita [mlu]. Intelligibility of Baegu variety of To’abaita reportedly high, but of To’abaita much less. Lexical similarity: 82% with Kwara’ae [kwf], 76% with Lau [llu]. |
| Classification | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Southeast Solomonic, Malaita-San Cristobal, Malaita, Northern |
| Language use | Home. All ages. |
| Language development | Literacy rate in L1: 30%–60%. Literacy rate in L2: 25%–50%. |
| Comments | SVO. Hunters; agriculturalists. |
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