Mono-Alu language
| Mono | |
|---|---|
| Mono-Alu | |
| Region | Solomon Islands |
| Ethnicity | Mono-Alu |
Native speakers | (2,900 cited 1999) |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mte |
| Glottolog | mono1273 |
| ELP | Mono (Solomon Islands) |
Mono, or Alu, is an Oceanic language of the Solomon Islands, reportedly spoken by a total of 2,944 people with 660 people on Treasury Island (Mono proper), 2,270 on Shortland Island (Alu dialect), and 14 on Fauro Island in 1999.
The Mono-Alu language has been documented by Joel L. Fagan, a researcher for the Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University. His publication, "A Grammatical Analysis of Mono-Alu (Bougainville Straits, Solomon Islands)," is the first and only translation and analysis of the Mono-Alu language.