Savosavo
Savo; Savo Island;
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~2,500
Nearly the entire community can also speak Solomon Islands Pijin. Only very young children might not speak it.
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2008
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Savosavo is spoken on Savo island, a small volcanic island with a diameter of about 6 km, about 35 km north-west of the capital Honiara.
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Savosavo is spoken on Savo island, a small volcanic island with a diameter of about 6 km, about 35 km north-west of the capital Honiara.
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Solomon Islands Pijin
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Almost everyone on Savo is fluent in Solomon Islands Pijin. Pijin and English are the only languages used in school. Children usually acquire Pijin only slightly later than Savosavo.
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2010
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In 1976, 1,147 speakers were reported. Today there are considerably less.
2007
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Savo Island, Solomon Islands
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North of northwestern Guadalcanal Island
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North of northwestern Guadalcanal Island
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2800-3000
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All speakers are bilingual and speak one or more of the neighbouring Austronesian languages, but it is very rare for a native speaker of another language to learn how to speak Savosavo.
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Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1999).
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2005
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