Glottolog 5.1 - Roviana

Spoken L1 Language: Roviana

Classification

▼Austronesian (1274)

Comments on subclassification

Karen Davis 2003: 5 Michael Dunn and Malcolm Ross 2007: 216

Endangerment

AES status:: not endangered
Source:: David M. Eberhard and Gary F. Simons and Charles D. Fennig 2024
Comment:: Roviana (rug-rug) = 3 (Wider communication). Lingua franca before 1880, especially for church purposes in the Western Province. Widely used as a trade language before the colonial era beginning in 1880.

Glottocode: rovi1238
ISO 639-3: rug

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Alternative names

elcat:: Roviana
lexvo:: Roviana [en]; Roviana language [en]
moseley & asher (1994):: Roviana
multitree:: Robiana; Roviana; Rubiana; Ruviana
ruhlen (1987):: Roviana
wals:: Roviana

Countries

Solomon Islands [SB]

References ⇫

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Name	Title	Year	Pages	Doctype	Provider

Schuelke, Peter 2020	Grammatical Relations and Syntactic Ergativity in Roviana: A Little-Described Language of Solomon Islands	2020	161	grammar_sketch	cldf, hh
J. H. L. Waterhouse and L. M. Jones 1949	A Roviana and English Dictionary	1949	245	dictionary, grammar_sketch	hh
Hall, Allen H. 1965	Roviana grammar paper	1965	39	grammar_sketch	hh
Simon Corston-Oliver 2002	Roviana	2002	31	grammar_sketch	cldf, hh
Waterhouse, J. H. Lawry 1926	A Roviana phrase book	1926	30	grammar_sketch	ldh, mpieva
Sidney H. Ray 1926	Grammar of the Roviana language	1926	18	grammar_sketch	hh
J. H. L. Waterhouse 1928	A Roviana and English Dictionary	1928	212	dictionary	hh
Waterhouse, J.H.L. 1949	A Roviana and English dictionary	1949		dictionary	cldf
Corston, S.H. 1996	Ergativity in Roviana, Solomon Islands	1996	90	specific_feature	cldf, hh, mpieva
J. H. L. Waterhouse 1926	A Roviana Phrasebook	1926	30	wordlist	hh
Carl Ribbe 1903	Zwei Jahre unter den kannibalen der Salomo-Inseln	1903	427	ethnographic, overview, wordlist	hh
Woodford, Charles Morris 1890	A naturalist among the head-hunters: Being an account of three visits to the Solomon Islands in the years 1886, 1887, and 1888	1890	261	ethnographic, overview, wordlist	hh
Darrell T. Tryon and Josephine Wheatley 1995	Roviana	1995	6	wordlist	hh
Darrell T. Tryon and B. D. Hackman 1983	Solomon Islands Languages: An Internal Classification	1983	498	overview, comparative, wordlist	evobib, hh, langsci, mpieva
Carl Ribbe 1903	68 Wörter in 34 verschiedenen Sprachen und Dialkten der Süd-See, der papuanischen und der malayischen Inseln	1903	17	wordlist	hh
Arthur Capell 1968	Lexicostatical Study of the Languages of Choiseul Island, British Solomon Islands	1968	26	overview, comparative, wordlist	hh
Sidney H. Ray 1926	A Comparative Study of the Melanesian Island Languages	1926	598	overview, minimal, comparative	cldf, hh, langsci
Malcolm Ross 1988	Proto-Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of western Melanesia	1988	500	overview, comparative	cldf, evobib, hh, langsci, ldh, mpieva
Somerville, B. T. 1897	Songs and specimens of the language of New Georgia, Solomon Islands	1897	32	minimal	hh
George W. Grace 1956	1955-1956 Fieldnotes: Notebook 46 Savosavo	1956		minimal	hh
Aswani, S. 2000	Changing Identities: The Ethnohistory of Roviana predatory Headhunting	2000	32	ethnographic	cldf
Sheppard, P.J. and Walter, R. and Nagaoka, T. 2000	The Archeology of Head-hunting in Roviana Lagoon, New Georgia	2000	30	ethnographic	cldf
Aswani, S. and Sheppard, P. 2003	The Archeology of Ethnohistory of Exchange in Precolonial and Colonial Roviana: Gifts, Commodities, and Inalienable Possessions	2003	28	ethnographic	cldf
Thomas, T. and Sheppard, P. and Walter, R. 2001	Landscape, Violence and Social Bodies: Ritualized Architecture in a Solomon Islands Society	2001	28	ethnographic	cldf
Somerville, B.T. 1897	Ethnographic notes in New Georgia, Solomon Islands	1897	56	ethnographic	cldf
Walter, R. & Sheppard, P. 2000	Nusa Roviana: The Archaeology of a Melanesian Chiefdom	2000	24	ethnographic	cldf
Richard Walter and Peter Sheppard 2000	Nusa Roviana: The Archaeology of a Melanesian Chiefdom	2000	24	ethnographic	hh
Aswani, S. 2008	Forms of Leadership and Violence in Malaita and in the New Georgia Group, Solomon Islands	2008	23	ethnographic	cldf
Aswani, S. and Furusawa, T. 2007	Do Marine Protected Areas Affect Human Nutrition and Health? A Comparison between Villages in Roviana, Solomon Islands	2007	21	ethnographic	cldf
Walter, R and Thomas, T. and Sheppard, P. 2004	Cult Assemblages and Ritual Practice in Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands	2004	16	ethnographic	cldf
Terrill, A. & Dunn, M. 2003	Orthographic Design in the Solomon Islands: The Social, Historical and Linguistic Situation of Touo (Baniata)	2003	16	ethnographic	cldf
Aswani, S. 2002	Assessing the Effects of Changing Demographic and Consumption Patterns on Sea Tenure Regimes in the Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands	2002	13	ethnographic	cldf
Goldie, Rev, J.F. 1909	The People of New Georgia. Their Manners and Customs, and Religious Beliefs	1909	8	ethnographic	cldf
Sheppard, P. & Walter, R. 2013	Diversity and networked independence in the Western Solomon Islands	2013	10	ethnographic	cldf
Furusawa, T. & Ohtsuka, R. 2006	Inter-Household Variations in Subsistence Strategies within a Rural Society of Roviana, Solomon Islands: An Analysis of Agricultural Production and Cash Income in relation to Socio-Demographic Factors	2006	3	ethnographic	cldf
Clark, G.R. & Bedford, S. 2008	Friction Zones in Lapita Colonisation	2008	15	ethnographic	cldf
Bellwood, P. 1995	Austronesian Prehistory in Southeast Asia: Homeland, Expansion and Transformation	1995	2	ethnographic	cldf
Calculator, Daft Logic Distance 2014	http://www.daftlogic.com/projects-google-maps-distance-calculator.htm.	2014		ethnographic	cldf
na 2014	Google Maps	2014		ethnographic	cldf
Nagaoka, T. 2011	Late Prehistoric-Early Historic Houses and Settlement Spac on Nusa Roviana, New Georgia Group, Solomon Islands	2011		ethnographic	cldf
Agency, National Geospatial-Intelligence 2009	World Port Index Nineteenth Edition	2009		ethnographic	cldf
McDougall, D. 2008	Religious institutions as Alternative Structures in post-conflict Solomon Islands: Cases from Western Province	2008		ethnographic	cldf
Thomas, T.D. 2003	Things of Roviana	2003		ethnographic	cldf
McCracken, E. H. 2000	Fragments of Headhunters: The Pattern and Causes of Depopulation in the New Georgia Group, Western Solomon Islands	2000		ethnographic	cldf
Kilé, N. and Lam, M. and Davis, D.C. and Donnelly, R.J. 2000	Managing the live reef food fish trade in Solomon islands: the role of village decision-making systems in Ontong Java, Roviana and Marovo Lagoons	2000		ethnographic	cldf
Cribb, R. 2000	Historical atlas of Indonesia	2000		ethnographic	cldf
Nagaoka, T. 1999	Hope Pukerane: A Study of Religious Sites in Roviana, New Georgia, Solomon Islands	1999		ethnographic	cldf
Tryon, Darrell T. and Hackman, B.D. 1983	Solomon Islands languages: An internal classification. Canberra, Australia: Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University.	1983		ethnographic	cldf
Luxton, C.T.J. 1955	Isles of Solomon: A Tale of Missionary Adventure	1955		ethnographic	cldf
na 2000	Roviana clauses	2000			cldf

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