Maewo

Maewo, more precisely Central Maewo and self-named Sungwadaga, is an Oceanic language of the island of Maewo in northern Vanuatu. It is also known as Peterara, after one of its dialects. The island's name descends from a reconstructed Proto-North-Central Vanuatu form mwaewo, rendered Nwaewo in the local tongues.

Central Maewo occupies the middle of the island, with the related Sungwadia or Marino language to the north and Baetora, or South Maewo, to the south. Europeans first sighted Maewo in the Spanish expedition of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros at the end of April 1606; Louis Antoine de Bougainville saw it again in 1768 and gave the island the name Aurora.