Hoava language

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Hoava
Spoken in: Solomon Islands 
Region: Marovo Lagoon, New Georgia Island
Total speakers: 459 (1999 SIL)
Language family: Austronesian
 Malayo-Polynesian (MP)
  Nuclear MP
   Central-Eastern MP
    Eastern MP
     Oceanic
      Western Oceanic
       Meso-Melanesian
        New Ireland
         South New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic
          New Georgia
           West New Georgia
            Hoava
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: hoa

Hoava is an Oceanic language spoken by about 450 people on New Georgia Island, Solomon Islands. Speakers of Hoava tend also Roviana.

[edit] External link

Hoava language at Ethnologue