Bugotu language
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Bugotu is a Melanesian language spoken on Santa Isabel Island in the Solomon Islands, where it serves as a lingua franca. Melanesian languages are part of the Eastern or Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family. While there are about 400 Melanesian languages, most have only a few hundred or thousand speakers, and fewer than a million people speak them in total. Many of these languages are not well-documented. English is the national language of the Solomon Islands.12
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