Owa language
The Owa language is one of the Southeast Solomon Islands languages . It belongs to the Austronesian language family and is part of the same dialect continuum as Kahua and is used by outsiders for the same language on different occasions.
description
Owa belongs to the San Cristobal languages and is spoken by 8440 people (2007) in the southeast of Makira Island (formerly San Cristobal) and on the offshore islands of Owaraha , formerly ( Santa Ana ) and Owariki , formerly ( Santa Catalina ) .
Since 1938, the Anglican Church Anglican Church of Melanesia liturgical texts in the Owa-language formerly Ana-language Santa was called Print, leave. The language code according to ISO 639-3 is stn .
literature
- M. Paul Lewis: Owa: A Language of Solomon Islands , SIL International, 2009