Region Solomon Islands ISO 639-3 mvo | Native speakers 8,100 (1999) Glottolog maro1244 | |
Language family Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Northwest Solomonic
New Georgia – Ysabel
New Georgia
Marovo | ||
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(Text) CC BY-SA