Gela

Gela, also called Nggela and formerly Florida, is an Oceanic language of the Southeast Solomonic group, spoken in the Nggela Islands at the centre of the Solomon Islands. Its three dialects are very close, differing mainly in phonology; the language has five vowels and normally stresses the penultimate syllable.

In the later 1800s the Melanesian Mission of the Anglican Church of Melanesia took up Gela, together with Mota of the Banks Islands in Vanuatu, as a language of Christian teaching, and the first Gela translation of the scriptures was printed in those years.