Owa language

The Owa - language is a language of the Solomon Islands. It belongs to the Austronesian language family and is part of the same dialect continuum as Kahua and is used by outsiders for the same language on different occasions.

Description

Owa is one of the San Cristobal languages ​​and is in the southeast of the island of Makira (formerly San Cristobal ) and in the upstream in the southeast islands Owaraha, formerly (Santa Ana ) and Owariki, formerly (Santa Catalina ), of 8440 people (2007) spoken.

Since 1938 the Church of England Church of the Province of Melanesia has let liturgical texts in the Owa - language, which was formerly known as Santa Ana - language print. The language code from ISO 639-3 is stn.