Social:Marau Wawa language

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Short description: Austronesian language spoken in the Solomon Islands
Marau Wawa
Native toSolomon Islands
Extinctca. 1930
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Oceanic
      • Southeast Solomonic
        • Malaita – San Cristobal
          • San Cristobal?
            • Marau Wawa
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologmara1417[1]

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.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Marau Wawa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mara1417. 
  2. ↑ Sidney Ray (1926), A Comparative Study of the Melanesian Island Languages, CUP, pp. 471–472.




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