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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Pacific > Papua New Guinea > Solos

Solos

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3sol

Population  3,200 (Lincoln 1977).
Region  Bougainville Province, central and southwest Buka Island.
Language map  Papua New Guinea, Map 13, reference number 609
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic, Meso Melanesian, New Ireland, South New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic, Nehan-North Bougainville, Solos
Language development  Literacy rate in L1: 50%–75%. Literacy rate in L2: 50%–75%.