Marau Wawa language
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Austronesian language spoken in the Solomon Islands
Not to be confused with Marau language or Wawa language.
| Marau Wawa | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Solomon Islands |
| Region | Marau Island |
| Extinct | ca. 1930 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | mara1417 |
Marau Wawa is an extinct language once spoken on Marau Island, off Makira in the Solomon Islands. (The island was actually named Wawa; marau just means "island".) The last speaker was old in 1919; the island had been abandoned after a raid some years earlier. The language may have been one of the Makira languages, but it was quite distinct.[1]
References
[edit ]- ^ Sidney Ray (1926), A Comparative Study of the Melanesian Island Languages, CUP, pp. 471–472.
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