Roviana language
Austronesian language spoken in the Solomon Islands / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Roviana is a member of the North West Solomonic branch of Oceanic languages. It is spoken around Roviana and Vonavona lagoons at the north central New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. It has 10,000 first-language speakers and an additional 16,000 people mostly over 30 years old speak it as a second language (Raymond 2005). In the past, Roviana was widely used as a trade language and further used as a lingua franca, especially for church purposes in the Western Province, but now it is being replaced by the Solomon Islands Pijin. Published studies on Roviana include: Ray (1926), Waterhouse (1949) and Todd (1978) contain the syntax of Roviana. Corston-Oliver (1996 & 2002) discuss ergativity in Roviana. Todd (2000) and Ross (1988) discuss the clause structure in Roviana. Schuelke (2020) discusses grammatical relations and syntactic ergativity in Roviana.[2]
Roviana | |
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Native to | Solomon Islands |
Region | north central New Georgia Island |
Native speakers | (9,900 cited 1999)[1] L2 speakers: 16,000 (1987)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | rug |
Glottolog | rovi1238 |
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