Wegener Claudia. A grammar of Savosavo, a Papuan language of the Solomon Islands

Wageningen: Ponsen & Looijen bv, 2008. - 400 p.Savosavo is one of four Papuan (i.e., non-Austronesian) languages spoken in the Solomon Islands, part of a region called Island Melanesia in the southwest Pacific. Savosavo is spoken on Savo Island, a small volcanic island with a diameter of about 6 km, about 35 km from the capital Honiara. In 1999 Savo Island was home to 2,549 people (Solomon Islands Census Office 1999), most of whom
had Savosavo as their first language. Today, the number of speakers can be estimated at about 2,500.