Marau Wawa | |
State: | Solomon Islands |
Extinct: | ca. 1930 |
Familycolor: | Austronesian |
Fam3: | Oceanic |
Fam4: | Southeast Solomonic |
Fam5: | Malaita – San Cristobal |
Fam6: | San Cristobal? |
Iso3: | none |
Glotto: | mara1417 |
Glottorefname: | Marau Wawa |
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]