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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. Few published studies on Roviana language include: Ray (1926), Waterhouse (1949) and Todd (1978) contain the syntax of Roviana language.Corston-Oliver (1996 & 2002) discuss about the ergativity in Roviana.Todd (2000) and Ross (1988) discuss the clause structure in Rovi

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  • Le roviana (ou robiana, rubiana, ruviana) est une langue océanienne, parlée par 9 870 locuteurs, dans les Salomon, en Nouvelle-Géorgie centrale et du nord, autour du lagon Roviana et du lagon Vonavona. (fr)
  • 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. Few published studies on Roviana language include: Ray (1926), Waterhouse (1949) and Todd (1978) contain the syntax of Roviana language.Corston-Oliver (1996 & 2002) discuss about the ergativity in Roviana.Todd (2000) and Ross (1988) discuss the clause structure in Roviana. Schuelke (2020) discusses grammatical relations and syntactic ergativity in Roviana. (en)
  • ロヴィアナ語(ロヴィアナご、英: Roviana language)は大洋州諸語のを構成する言語の一つである。ソロモン諸島のニュージョージア島北中部のロヴィアナ・ラグーン(Roviana Lagoon)とヴォナヴォナ・ラグーン(Vonavona Lagoon)周辺で話されている。 (ja)
  • A língua Roviana faz parte do ramo Salomônico Noroeste das [línguas oceânicas]], sendo falado na região das lagoas e Vonavona língua franca de caráter religioso na província Ocidental. Hoje vem sendo substituída pelo pidgin das Ilhas Salomão. (pt)
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  • Austronesian (en)
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  • rovi1238 (en)
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  • Roviana (en)
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  • rug (en)
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  • Roviana (en)
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  • north central New Georgia Island (en)
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  • L2 speakers: 16,000 (en)
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  • Le roviana (ou robiana, rubiana, ruviana) est une langue océanienne, parlée par 9 870 locuteurs, dans les Salomon, en Nouvelle-Géorgie centrale et du nord, autour du lagon Roviana et du lagon Vonavona. (fr)
  • ロヴィアナ語(ロヴィアナご、英: Roviana language)は大洋州諸語のを構成する言語の一つである。ソロモン諸島のニュージョージア島北中部のロヴィアナ・ラグーン(Roviana Lagoon)とヴォナヴォナ・ラグーン(Vonavona Lagoon)周辺で話されている。 (ja)
  • A língua Roviana faz parte do ramo Salomônico Noroeste das [línguas oceânicas]], sendo falado na região das lagoas e Vonavona língua franca de caráter religioso na província Ocidental. Hoje vem sendo substituída pelo pidgin das Ilhas Salomão. (pt)
  • 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. Few published studies on Roviana language include: Ray (1926), Waterhouse (1949) and Todd (1978) contain the syntax of Roviana language.Corston-Oliver (1996 & 2002) discuss about the ergativity in Roviana.Todd (2000) and Ross (1988) discuss the clause structure in Rovi (en)
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  • Roviana (fr)
  • ロヴィアナ語 (ja)
  • Roviana language (en)
  • Língua roviana (pt)
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