Bauro language

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Bauro
Tairaha
Native to Solomon Islands
Native speakers
(5,000 cited 1999) [1]
Dialects
  • Haununu
  • Ravo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bxa
Glottolog baur1252

Bauro, or Tairaha, is a language of the San Cristobal family, and is spoken in the central part of the island of Makira, formerly known as San Cristobal in the Solomon Islands.

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References

  1. Bauro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)