Marovo language

Marovo
Spoken in	Solomon Islands
Native speakers	8,100  (1999)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Northwest Solomonic New Georgia Roviana–Marovo Hoava–Marovo Marovo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mvo

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.

Names for local fauna are similar to but still much distinct from those in Roviana (and presumably other New Georgia languages).^[1]

Footnotes

1. ^ Read & Moseby (2006)

References

• Gordon, Raymond G. Jr. (ed.) (2005): Marovo. In: Ethnologue: Languages of the World (15th ed.). SIL International, Dallas, Texas.
• Read, John L. & Moseby, Katherine (2006): Vertebrates of Tetepare Island, Solomon Islands. Pacific Science 60(1): 69–79. DOI: 10.2984/1534-6188(2006)60[69:VOTISI]2.0.CO;2 HTML abstract

External links

• Sample of Marovo