Kazukuru | |
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Native to | Solomon Islands |
Region | New Georgia |
Extinct | early 20th century |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kzk |
Glottolog | kazu1245 |
Kazukuru is an extinct language that was once spoken in New Georgia, Solomon Islands. The Dororo and Guliguli languages (if they even existed) were transcriptional variants, dialects, or closely related. The speakers of Kazukuru gradually merged with the Roviana people from the sixteenth century onward and adopted Roviana as their language. Kazukuru was last recorded in the early twentieth century when its speakers were in the last stages of language shift. Today, Kazukuru is the name of a clan in the Roviana people group.