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. | ||
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.
Names for local fauna are similar to but still much distinct from those in Marovo (and presumably other New Georgia languages).[1]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Read & Moseby (2006)
[edit] References
- Gordon, Raymond G. Jr. (ed.) (2005): Roviana. 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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