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Uruava
Uruava
Region	Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Meso-Melanesian Northwest Solomonic Mono–Uruavan Uruava; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	urv
Glottolog	urua1242
ELP	Uruava

Uruava is an extinct Austronesian language formerly spoken in southeast Bougainville, Papua New Guinea.

The language was spoken around the Arawa. It was recorded shortly before its speakers shifted to the non-Austronesian Nasioi language.^[1]

References edit

^ Spriggs, Matthew (2005). "Bougainville's early history: an archaeological perspective". In Regan, Anthony; Griffin, Helga-Maria (eds.). Bougainville Before the Conflict. Stranger Journalism. p. 17. ISBN 9781740761383.

Rausch, J. (1912). "Die Sprache von Südost Bougainville, Deutsche Salomoninsel". Anthropos (in German). 7.