Region Solomon Islands ISO 639-3 stn | Native speakers 8,400 (1999) Glottolog owaa1237 | |
Language family Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Southeast Solomonic
Owa Dialects Tawarafa
Owa Raha
Owa Riki | ||
The Owa language is a language of the Solomon Islands. It is part of the same dialect continuum as Kahua, and shares the various alternate names of that dialect.
Description
Owa is a member of the Southeast Solomonic languages and is spoken in the southern part of the island of Makira as well as the Owaraha and Owariki islands in the Solomon Islands. It was formerly called Santa Ana, under which name several Anglican publications of the Church of the Province of Melanesia have been printed in this language from 1938 to the present.
References
Owa language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA