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Roviana is a
member of the
North West
Solomonic branch of
Oceanic languages. It is
spoken around Roviana and
Vonavona lagoons at the
north central New...
- The
Roviana rail (Hypotaenidia rovianae) is a
species of bird in the
family Rallidae. It is
endemic to the
Western Province (Solomon Islands). Its natural...
- the 15th and 17th
centuries Roviana people moved over to
smaller barrier islands at New
Georgia with a hub in Nusa
Roviana.
Through trade and headhunting...
- (called
Munda Point) of the
western end of New Georgia, and the
large Roviana Lagoon is just offs****.
Munda Point was
originally the site of a coconut...
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include yellow-legged pigeons,
crested cuckoo-doves, Mayr's swiftlets,
Roviana rails, Heinroth's shearwaters, Sanford's sea eagles, M****'s lorikeets,...
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century AD), Nusa
Roviana fortress and
shrines (14th – 19th century),
Vonavona Skull island – all in
Western province. Nusa
Roviana fortress, shrines...
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speakers of
Kazukuru gradually merged with the
Roviana people from the
sixteenth century onward and
adopted Roviana as
their language.
Kazukuru was last recorded...
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European colonization, they
resided in the
eastern side of the
western Roviana lagoon and
established the
concept of the
right to
property by interlinking...
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number of
suffixes (Tagalog titis-án 'ashtray' < títis 'ash') and
infixes (
Roviana t<in>avete 'work (noun)' <
tavete 'work (verb)').
Reduplication is commonly...
- 1000–1500
throughout the islands, one of the most
prominent examples being the
Roviana cultural complex centred on the
islands off the
southern coast of New Georgia...
