Hoava language
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| Hoava | ||
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| Spoken in: | Solomon Islands | |
| Region: | Marovo Lagoon, New Georgia Island | |
| Total speakers: | 459 (1999 SIL) | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP Central-Eastern MP Eastern MP Oceanic Western Oceanic Meso-Melanesian New Ireland South New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic New Georgia West New Georgia Hoava |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | hoa | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Hoava is an Oceanic language spoken by about 450 people on New Georgia Island, Solomon Islands. Speakers of Hoava tend to also use Roviana.
[edit] References
- Davis, Karen (2003). A grammar of the Hoava language, Western Solomons. Canberra : Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. ISBN 0-85883-502-9
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