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. | ||
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.
Names for local fauna are similar to but still much distinct from those in Roviana (and presumably other New Georgia languages).[1]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Read & Moseby (2006)
[edit] References
- Gordon, Raymond G. Jr. (ed.) (2005): Marovo. In: Ethnologue: Languages of the World (15th ed.). SIL International, Dallas, Texas.
- Read, John L. & Moseby, Katherine (2006): Vertebrates of Tetepare Island, Solomon Islands. Pacific Science 60(1): 69–79. DOI: 10.2984/1534-6188(2006)60[69:VOTISI]2.0.CO;2 HTML abstract
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