Marau Wawa language

Marau Wawa
Marau Wawa
Native to	Solomon Islands
Extinct	ca. 1930
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southeast Solomonic Malaita – San Cristobal San Cristobal? Marau Wawa; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	mara1417

Marau Wawa is an extinct language once spoken on Marau Island, off Makira in the Solomon Islands. (The island was actually named Wawa; marau just means "island".) The last speaker was old in 1919; the island had been abandoned after a raid some years earlier. The language may have been one of the Makira languages, but it was quite distinct.^[1]

References

^ Sidney Ray (1926), A Comparative Study of the Melanesian Island Languages, CUP, pp. 471–472.

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[1] Sidney Ray (1926), A Comparative Study of the Melanesian Island Languages, CUP, pp. 471–472.

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