Roviana language

Infobox Language
name=Roviana
states=Solomon Islands
region=north central New Georgia Island
speakers=9,871 (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=rug

Roviana is an Oceanic language spoken by about 10,000 people on New Georgia Island, Solomon Islands. Roviana was a trade language that reached all the way to Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, but is being replace by Pijin.

Names for local fauna are similar to but still much distinct from those in Marovo (and presumably other New Georgia languages). [Read & Moseby (2006)]

Footnotes

References

* (2005): [http://www.ethnologue.org/show_language.asp?code=rug Roviana] . "In:" Ethnologue: Languages of the World (15th ed.). SIL International, Dallas, Texas.
* (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 [http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.2984%2F1534-6188(2006)60%5B69%3AVOTISI%5D2.0.CO%3B2 HTML abstract]