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Finally, in Vanuatu two languages have been listed as extinct (10 scale); they are Aore [aor]
and Ifo [iff]. The numbers of languages in each category can be seen in the graph.

The Solomon Islands
The official name of the country is the Solomon Islands. It has a population of 554,000. The
literacy rate in the Solomon Islands is 77%.
The two main languages in the Solomon islands are Solomon pidgin which is used as
a lingua franca by the majority of the population to communicate, and English which only
1% to 2% of the population can speak (Lewis et al., 2015). In some places, Solomons pidgin
has evolved into a creole.
The Solomon Islands may have had a connection with the island of Java. There is an atoll
there called Ontong Java (Gall and Hobby, 2007). The name resembles Untung Jawa, an

Language Distribution Map in Solomon Islands
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