Gela is a member of the Southeast Solomonic group of Oceanic languages. It is spoken by about 12,000 people in the Nggela (Florida) Islands in the Central Province of the Solomon Islands. In particular, Gela speakers are found on the islands of Big Nggela (Nggela Sule), Small Nggela (Nggela Pile), and Sandfly (Mboko ni Mbeti). There are also Gela speakers on Buenavista, Guadalcanal and Savo islands.
Gela is also known as Nggela, and used to be known as Florida. There are three dialects: Central Gela, which is spoken on Big Nggela Island, Gela Pile, which is spoken on Little Nggela Island, and Sandfly, which is spoken on Sandfly Island. They differ mainly in pronunciation.
Gela was first written by missionaries from the Melanesian Mission of the Anglican Church of Melanesia, who published a Gela translation of the scriptures from the Bible in 1882.
Download an alphabet chart for Gela (Excel)
Source: https://www.bible.com/bible/1639/LUK.11.AIA
Source: https://www.bible.com/bible/1/LUK.11.KJV
Information about Gela | Numbers | Tower of Babel
Information about Gela
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gela_language
http://olac.ldc.upenn.edu/language/nlg
https://docs.verbix.com/Languages/Gela
https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofngge0000foxc
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20703245
ꞌAreꞌare, Arosi, Gela, Ghari, Kahua, Kwaio, Kwaraʼae, Lau, Lengo, Longgu, Oroha, Owa, Sa'a, Santa Cruz, Talise
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 20.02.24. Last modified: 14.07.24
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