Äiwoo language
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Äiwoo is a language spoken in the Reef Islands and Nendö (Santa Cruz Island), both part of the Temotu Province in the Eastern Solomon Islands. It belongs to the Reef Islands-Santa Cruz languages, a member of the Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian language family. Äiwoo is the largest of the Reef Islands-Santa Cruz languages with approximately 8000 native speakers, mainly in the Ngawa district and the island Ngäsinue in the Reef Islands, but also in some villages of Nendö, like Kala Bay, recently established communities in the capital, Honiara, like White River, and some settlements in Vanikoro.
[edit] References
- Næss, Åshild (2006). "Bound Nominal Elements in Äiwoo (Reefs): A Reappraisal of the ``Multiple Noun Class Systems". Oceanic Linguistics 45: 269–296. doi:.
- Ross, Malcolm and Åshild Næss (2007). "An Oceanic Origin for Aiwoo, the Language of the Reef Islands?". Oceanic Linguistics 46: 456–498.
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