Hoava
Facts
- Language: Hoava
- Alternate names: Hoava-Kusaghe
- Language code: hoa
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, Meso Melanesian linkage, New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic linkage, St George linkage, Northwest Solomonic, New Georgia, East New Georgia, Rovianic, Hoava-Kusaghe
- Number of speakers: ~2,360
- Vulnerability: Threatened
- Script:
More information:
Hoava and Kusaghe (ksg) are sometimes considered separate languages (see Ethnologue, based on data gathered in 1999) but Davis (2003) shows cognate percentages near 90%% and reports mutual ineligibility.