Owa language

Owa
Santa Ana
Region	Solomon Islands
Native speakers	8,400 (1999)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southeast Solomonic Owa
Dialects	Tawarafa Owa Raha Owa Riki
Language codes
ISO 639-3	stn
Glottolog	owaa1237[2]

The Owa language is a language of the Solomon Islands. It is part of the same dialect continuum as Kahua, and shares the various alternate names of that dialect.

Description

Owa is a member of the Southeast Solomonic languages and is spoken in the southern part of the island of Makira as well as the Owaraha and Owariki islands in the Solomon Islands. It was formerly called Santa Ana, under which name several Anglican publications of the Church of the Province of Melanesia have been printed in this language from 1938 to the present.

References

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

External links

• Fagarafenga ni Gomagomaafatani mana Manuurafitani mana Ngau Apuna ana i na woita i owa Rafa 1956 translation of Anglican liturgical services into this language digitized by Richard Mammana