Marau Wawa language

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]

Marau Wawa
Native toSolomon Islands
Extinctca. 1930
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologmara1417

References

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


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