Roviana language
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| Roviana | ||
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| Spoken in: | Solomon Islands | |
| Region: | north central New Georgia Island | |
| Total speakers: | 9,871 (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 Roviana |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | — | |
| ISO 639-3: | rug | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Roviana is an Oceanic language spoken by about 10,000 people on New Georgia Island, Solomon Islands. Roviana was a trade language that reached all the way to Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, but is being replace by Pijin.
[edit] External link
Roviana language at Ethnologue
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