Hoava
[también conocido como Hoava-Kusaghe]Clasificación: Austronesian
·con amenaza de extinción
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Con amenaza de extinción
60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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~2,360
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Though other sources list the number of speakers as less than 500, Davis (who is the only source with prolonged individual contact with Hoava speakers) reports numbers that are much higher. Davis includes speakers of the Kusaghe dialect, considered by some to be a seperate language. However, even if one removes Kusaghe from the calculations, Davis lists 1,230 Kusaghe speakers, which leaves over 1,100 speakers of the Hoava dialect.
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- MÁS SOBRE LA VITALIDAD
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When speaking with Marovo speakers, Hoava speakers switch entirely to Marovo, and Marovo speakers are not expected to speak Hoava. In schools Roviana and Pijin are mostly used. There does not seem to be much attrition, though the use of Roviana and pijin words in Hoava speech has been reported as rising.
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- None
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Solomon Islands Pijin
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Roviana
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Marovo
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English
- LUGARES
- Solomon Islands
- DESCRIPCIÓN DE LA UBICACIÓN
Spoken along the north coast of New Georgia island. There are also communities of speakers in the regional capital, Gizo