Marau_Wawa_language

Marau Wawa language

Marau Wawa language

Austronesian language spoken in the Solomon Islands

Not to be confused with Marau language or Wawa language.

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]

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References

  1. [1]
    Sidney Ray (1926), A Comparative Study of the Melanesian Island Languages, CUP, pp. 471–472.


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