Gula’alaa

GMB

vigorous

Alternate Names: Kwai, Ngongosila

Dialects: None known. May be intelligible of Lau , or Kwara’ae ,. Lexical similarity: 85% with Lau , and Kwara’ae ,.

Genealogy:

Austronesian

Malayo-Polynesian

Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

Oceanic

Central-Eastern Oceanic

Southeast Solomonic

Malaita-San Cristobal

Malaita

Northern

Demographics: 1,570 (1999 SIL).

Language Use: All ages.

Typology: SVO.

Nation of Origin: Solomon Islands