Austronesian language spoken in the Solomon Islands
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Babatana
East Choiseul
Native to
Solomon Islands
Native speakers
(7,100 cited 1999)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Western
Meso-Melanesian
Northwest Solomonic
Choiseul
Babatana
Dialects
Sisingga (Sisiqa)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
baa
Glottolog
sout3208
Babatana, also spelled Mbambatana, is the principal indigenous language of Choiseul Province, Solomon Islands. Although native to the South Choiseul coastline area between Sepa and the Manggo Bay area, the use of this language has spread across much of Choiseul Island and it is generally understood, much like Solomon Islands Pijin, across the province as a second or third language.
^Babatana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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