Lavukaleve

Lavukaleve is one of the four Central Solomons languages, spoken by around 1,800 people, mostly on the Russell Islands of Solomon Islands. It takes its name from the Lavukal people, its traditional speakers, who were forcibly relocated by British colonial authorities from the island of Pavuvu to smaller neighboring islands to make way for coconut plantations. Along with the other Central Solomons languages, it is believed to descend from languages spoken in the region before Austronesian settlement, making it one of the few non-Austronesian survivors in an otherwise Austronesian-dominated part of the Pacific; it was described in a detailed 2003 grammar by the linguist Angela Terrill and is not considered endangered.