BUGHOTU ( Bugoto, Bugota, Bugotu, Mbughotu, Mahaga )

Spoken by 4,800 people on the southeast end of Santa Isabela Island, from Suma to Horara, and on Furona Island off the northwest corner of KIa District, Solomon Islands.
Linguistic Lineage for Bughotu
Solomon Islands

MAMA i popo,
Da tabu na Ahamu.
Da mai na hugutamu.
Da legua na hehemu i thepa,
Ke vagagna i popo.
Hegami mai keagaieni na vana ke nabamami legumagavu.
Ko talutavoga na paluhamami,
Ke vagagna igami kiti talutavoga na paluhadia.
Ko sagoi lubatigami kori anau;
Me ko hati angami kori koakoa:
Eigua na nimua na huguta, ma na thaba, ma na silada,
Ke hau me hau.
Amen.

Source: "Dictionary and Grammar of the Language of Sa’a and Ulawa, Solomon Islands" by Walter G. Ivens, M.A. Washington, 1918
(THE LORD’S PRAYER in Twenty Languages, as used in the Diocese of Melanesia among the Islands of the South Pacific, pp. 155-156)
http://books.google.com/books?id=I_YUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA139&dq=Sa%27a+and+Ulawa#PPP7,M1
The LORD'S PRAYER in Twenty-four Languages as used in the DIOCESE OF MELANESIA among the Islands of the South Pacific. Printed at the Melanesian Mission Press, British Solomon Islands. 1926.
http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/lords_prayer1926.html
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