Zazao language explained

Zazao
States:Central Solomon Islands
Region:Santa Isabel Island
Speakers:10
Date:1999
Ref:e18
Familycolor:Austronesian
Fam3:Oceanic
Fam4:Northwest Solomonic
Fam5:New Georgia – Ysabel
Fam6:Ysabel
Fam7:Central Isabel
Map2:Lang Status 20-CR.svg
Iso3:jaj
Glotto:zaza1245
Glottorefname:Zazao

Zazao is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands. Its speakers live on Santa Isabel Island. It is classified as “critically endangered” by the UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, because its speakers usually speak the Cheke Holo language or the Zabana language.[1]

Notes and References

  1. News: Zazao. Ethnologue. 2017-10-06.