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Marovo language

Marovo language

Austronesian language spoken in the Solomon Islands

Marovo is an Austronesian language of the Solomon Islands. It is spoken in the New Georgia Group on islands in Marovo Lagoon and on the neighbouring islands of New Georgia, Vangunu and Nggatokae. The usual word order in sentences is verb–subject–object.

Quick Facts Region, Native speakers ...

Names for local fauna are similar to but still much distinct from those in Roviana (and presumably other New Georgia languages).[2]

Phonology

Consonants

More information Labial, Alveolar ...

Vowels

More information Front, Central ...
Vowel length is also distinctive.[3]

Footnotes

  1. [1]
    Marovo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    Read & Moseby (2006)
  3. [3]
    Hviding, Edvard (1996). Guardians of Marovo Lagoon: Practice, Place, and Politics in Maritime Melanesia. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press. pp. xxvii–xxix.

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