Lau language (Malaita)

Lau language (Malaita)

language
name=Lau
nativename=
familycolor=Austronesian
states=Solomon Islands
region=Northeast Malaita Island
speakers=16,937 (1999 SIL)
fam2=Malayo-Polynesian (MP)
fam3=Central-Eastern MP
fam4=Eastern MP
fam5=Oceanic
fam6=Central-Eastern Oceanic
fam7=Southeast Solomonic
fam8=Malaita-San Cristobal
fam9=Malaita
fam10=Northern Malaita
nation=
iso3=llu

The Lau language is a Malayo-Polynesian group language spoken on northeast Malaita of the Solomon Islands. As of 1999 it had about 16,937 speakers.

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