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.