Kwara'ae language

Kwara'ae
Fiu
Native to Solomon Islands
Region Malaita Island
Native speakers
32,000 (1999)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kwf
Glottolog kwar1239[2]

The Kwara'ae language (previously called Fiu after the location of many of its speakers) is spoken in the north of Malaita Island in the Solomon Islands. In 1999 there were 32,400 people known to speak the language. It is the largest indigenous vernacular of the Solomon Islands.

References

  1. Kwara'ae at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kwara'ae". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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