Marovo

MVO

developing

Genealogy:

Austronesian

Malayo-Polynesian

Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

Oceanic

Western Oceanic

Meso Melanesian

New Ireland

South New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic

New Georgia

East

Demographics: 8,090 (1999 SIL).

Language Use: Also use English [eng]. Used as L2 by Duke [nke], Touo [tqu], Vangunu [mpr].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 30%–60%. Literacy rate in L2: 25%–50%. Grammar. Bible: 1956.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Solomon Islands