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.
| Marovo | |
|---|---|
| Region | Solomon Islands |
Native speakers | (8,100 cited 1999)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mvo |
| Glottolog | maro1244 |
Names for local fauna are similar to but still much distinct from those in Roviana (and presumably other New Georgia languages).[2]
Phonology
editConsonants
editLabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Nasal m n ŋ Stop/
Affricatevoiceless p t tʃ k prenasal ᵐb ⁿd ᶮdʒ ᵑɡ Fricative β s ɣ Lateral l Tap ɾ
Vowels
editFootnotes
edit- ^ Marovo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Read & Moseby (2006)
- ^ Hviding, Edvard (1996). Guardians of Marovo Lagoon: Practice, Place, and Politics in Maritime Melanesia. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press. pp. xxvii–xxix.
References
edit- Read, John L.; Moseby, Katherine (2006). "Vertebrates of Tetepare Island, Solomon Islands". Pacific Science. 60 (1): 69–79. doi:10.1353/psc.2005.0060. hdl:10125/22548. S2CID 36048427.
External links
edit- Materials on Marovo are included in the open access Arthur Capell collections (AC1 and AC2) held by Paradisec