Hoava language

Hoava
Spoken in	Solomon Islands
Region	Marovo Lagoon, New Georgia Island
Native speakers	459 (1999)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Northwest Solomonic New Georgia Roviana–Marovo Hoava–Marovo Hoava
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`hoa`

Hoava is an Oceanic language spoken by about 1000-1500 people on New Georgia Island, Solomon Islands. Speakers of Hoava are multilingual and usually also speak Roviana, Marovo, SI Pijin, English.

References

Davis, Karen (2003). A grammar of the Hoava language, Western Solomons. Canberra : Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. ISBN 0-85883-502-9