Marau Wawa language
| Marau Wawa | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Solomon Islands |
| Extinct | ca. 1930 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
None (mis) |
| Glottolog |
mara1417[1] |
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.[2]
References
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Marau Wawa". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Sidney Ray (1926), A Comparative Study of the Melanesian Island Languages, CUP, pp. 471–472.
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