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Marovo language

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Region
  
ISO 639-3
  
mvo

Native speakers
  
8,100 (1999)

Glottolog
  
maro1244

Language family
  
AustronesianMalayo-PolynesianOceanicNorthwest SolomonicNew Georgia – YsabelNew GeorgiaMarovo

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).

References

Marovo language Wikipedia


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