Marau Wawa is an extinct language once spoken on Marau Island, off

Makira The island of Makira (previously known as San Cristóbal) is the largest island of Makira-Ulawa Province in Solomon Islands. It is third most populous of the Solomon Islands after Malaita and Guadalcanal, with a population of 55,126 as of 2020 ...

in the

Solomon Islands Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Prados, ''Islands of Destiny'', Dutton Caliber, 2012, p,20 and passim is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 1000 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, t ...

. (The island was actually named ''Wawa''; ''marau'' just means "island".) The last speaker was old in 1919; the island had been abandoned after a raid some years earlier. The language may have been one of the Makira languages, but it was quite distinct.Sidney Ray (1926), ''A Comparative Study of the Melanesian Island Languages'', CUP, pp. 471–472.

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Malaita-San Cristobal languages {{SESolomonic-lang-stub Extinct languages of the Solomon Islands