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In Rotokas alphabet language spoken inhabitants of the island of Bougainville in the Pacific Ocean, there are only 12 letters. This alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet, which are taken from letters a, e, g, i, k, o, p, r, s, t, u, v. The language Rotokas also recorded the lowest number of consonants: they are there only seven. The total number of speakers Rotokas - about 4,000 people. Linguists refer to this language vostochnopapuasskoy group of Papuan languages. Despite the small number of vehicles, it has three dialects: central, Aita and pipipaya. The phonetics of different vowel length: they all have a long and short form. However, there are no tones and a distinctive accent. Bougainville Island, home media Rotokas, located to the east of Australia and is a member state of Papua - New Guinea. It belongs to the group of the Solomon Islands and is the largest of them: the Bougainville area is 10 000 km². The island is named after the famous French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811), the head of the first French circumnavigation expedition. About Rotokas language is written not so much. Most of the work was written by Australian linguists - Irwin Firchou and Stuart Robinson. Firchou first published English-language study of grammar Rotokas, and Robinson studied the features of the dialects of the language. In 1969, the language of Rotokas was partially translated the Bible, and in 1982 released the full text of the New Testament.

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