Uruava
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Uruava or Poraka was an Austronesian language spoken in Bougainville , Papua New Guinea .
A count in 1929/30 resulted in 98 speakers. In 1963 only five older speakers could be identified. In 1973 they too died.
The Uruava-speaking population group probably only immigrated from the Solomonic Shortland Islands to their current settlement area near Arawa at the beginning of the 19th century . The language is completely absorbed in the Papuan Naasioi language .