The number of local languages listed for Solomon Islands is 74, of which 70 are living languages and 4 are extinct, according to Ethnologue, Languages of the World | Osifelo, Eddie 24 November 2011 |
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These peoples mixed with the native Solomon Islanders and over time their languages became dominant, with most of the 60-70 languages spoken there belonging to the branch of the | The agriculture on the Solomon Islands is hampered by a very severe lack of agricultural machines |
Until September 2019, it was one of the few countries to recognise the and maintain formal diplomatic relations with the latter.
8On 12 January 2007, replaced its top diplomat expelled from Solomon Islands for political interference in a conciliatory move aimed at easing a four-month dispute between the two countries | On 27 December 2006, the Solomon Islands government took steps to prevent the country's from returning to the Pacific nation |
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Relations between the islanders and visiting seamen was not always good and sometimes there was bloodshed | In 1900, under the terms of the , Germany ceded the Northern Solomon to Britain, minus Buka and Bougainville, the latter becoming part of despite geographically belonging to the Solomons archipelago |
The Solomon Islands also includes isolated low-lying and high islands including , , , the and the remote, tiny outliers, , , and.
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