Kwaio language

Kwaio
Native to Solomon Islands
Region Malaita Island
Ethnicity Kwaio people
Native speakers
13,000 (1999)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kwd
Glottolog kwai1243[2]

The Kwaio language, or Koio, is spoken in the centre of Malaita Island in the Solomon Islands.

References

  1. Kwaio at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kwaio". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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