Social:Marau Wawa language
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Short description: Austronesian language spoken in the Solomon Islands
Marau Wawa | |
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Native to | Solomon Islands |
Extinct | ca. 1930 |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | mara1417 [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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Sidney Ray (1926), A Comparative Study of the Melanesian Island Languages, CUP, pp. 471–472.
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