Austronesian language spoken in the Solomon Islands
Marovo
Region
Solomon Islands
Native speakers
(8,100 cited 1999)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Northwest Solomonic
New Georgia – Ysabel
New Georgia
Marovo
Language codes
ISO 639-3
mvo
Glottolog
maro1244
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).[2]
^Marovo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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