Solos is an Austronesian language of Buka Island in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea.
Approximately 15,000 people (2022) are estimated to speak Solos as a first language out of an ethnic population of about 17,000 (2022).
[2] Solos uses an adapted Latin alphabet of 22 characters,[3] five of which are vowels, two are digraphs, and one is the saltillo symbol, which in practical writing and typing is often expressed as a simple apostrophe.
The letters are (vowels in bold): a, b, d, e, g, h, i, k, l, m, n, ng, o, p, r, s, t, ts, u, w, y, ꞌ ⟨ng⟩ is used for /ŋ/, ⟨ts⟩ is used for /tʃ/, and ⟨ꞌ⟩ is used for the glottal stop /ʔ/.
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