Hoava language

Hoava language

Infobox Language
name=Hoava
states=Solomon Islands
region=Marovo Lagoon, New Georgia Island
speakers=459 (1999 SIL)
familycolor=Austronesian
fam2=Malayo-Polynesian (MP)
fam3=Nuclear MP
fam4=Central-Eastern MP
fam5=Eastern MP
fam6=Oceanic
fam7=Western Oceanic
fam8=Meso-Melanesian
fam9=New Ireland
fam10=South New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic
fam11=New Georgia
fam12=West New Georgia
iso3=hoa

Hoava is an Oceanic language spoken by about 450 people on New Georgia Island, Solomon Islands. Speakers of Hoava tend to also use Roviana.

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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