Solong

AAW

educational

Alternate Names: Arawe, Arove, Pililo

Dialects: Arawe. Dialect subgroup. Understood by all along the coast.

Genealogy:

Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Western Oceanic
North New Guinea
Ngero-Vitiaz
Vitiaz
Southwest New Britain
Arawe-Pasismanua
Arawe
West Arawe

Demographics: 2,200 (Wurm and Hattori 1981).

Language Use: Also use English [eng], Tok Pisin [tpi].

Language Development: 3 primary schools.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Papua New Guinea

Other Comments: Glossonym: Solong. Ethnonym: Arove. Christian, traditional religion.