Marovo language
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Marovo | ||
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Spoken in: | Solomon Islands | |
Total speakers: | 8,094 (as of 1999) | |
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 Marovo |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | map | |
ISO 639-3: | mvo | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. |
Marovo is an Austronesian language of the Solomon Islands. It is spoken in the New Georgia Group on islands in Marovo Lagoon and on the neighbouring islands of New Georgia, Vangunu and Nggatokae. The usual word order in sentences is verb-subject-object.
[edit] Reference
- Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version.