Marau Wawa language

Marau Wawa
Marau Wawa
Native to	Solomon Islands
Region	Marau Island
Extinct	ca. 1930
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southeast Solomonic Malaita – San Cristobal San Cristobal? Marau Wawa; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	mara1417

Last updated October 14, 2025

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, being unintelligible with the other language spoken near it, Bauro.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ "Glottolog 5.2 - Marau Wawa". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2025-10-13.
↑ Sidney Ray (1926), A Comparative Study of the Melanesian Island Languages, CUP, pp. 471–472.

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[1] "Glottolog 5.2 - Marau Wawa". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2025-10-13.

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

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