Marovo language

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Marovo
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
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: map
ISO 639-3: mvo

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.

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