Rennell-Bellona, or Rennellese, is a Polynesian outlier language spoken in the Rennell and Bellona Province of the Solomon Islands.
At that time the Rennell and Bellona Islands were a battlefield during the Battle of Midway, between the Japanese and Americans; just like Hawaii.
After World War II had ended, both Rennell and Bellona were still being held by allied forces, until finally gaining independence in 1978 (Levinson, 279-280).
[3] The people of the Rennell and Bellona Islands live in small village communities, with each group having its own culture, and religious practices (Levinson, 284-285).
The letters ⟨P, T, K⟩ are regular stops, ⟨B, GH, H, S⟩ are the fricatives, ⟨M, N, NG⟩ are the nasals, ⟨L⟩ is the only lateral, and finally ⟨G⟩ as a pre-nasal (Elbert, 1988).
Researchers speculate that this is due to outside influences from missionaries and World War II (Elbert, 1981).
There are many valuable resources that have been created to help maintain the language including a dictionary, and multiple books primarily written by Samuel H. Elbert.
Elbert, along with several other researchers, dedicated an entire website to the people of Rennell and Bellona, called Bellona.dk.
In the long term, Rennellese may be able to see further growth if more technological material is made to both preserve and spread the language.