| Languages of the Solomon Islands archipelago | |
|---|---|
 Language families of the Solomon Islands archipelago Red: North Bougainville Blue: South Bougainville Green: Central Solomons Grey: Austronesian | |
| Official | English |
| Indigenous | Several languages |
| Vernacular | Pijin, Solomon Islands English |
| Keyboard layout | |
Between 60 and 70 languages are spoken in the Solomon Islands archipelago[1] which covers a broader area than the nation state of Solomon Islands,[2] and includes the island of Bougainville, which is an autonomous province of Papua New Guinea (PNG). The lingua franca of the archipelago is Pijin, and the official language in both countries is English.
- ^ Tryon & Hackman (1983).
- ^ Ples Blong Iumi: Solomon Islands the Past Four Thousand Years, Hugh Laracy (ed.), University of the South Pacific, 1989, ISBN 982-02-0027-X