Lavukaleve language

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Lavukaleve
Spoken in: Solomon Islands 
Region: Russell Islands
Total speakers: 1783 (1999 SIL)
Language family: East Papuan (geographic)
 Central Solomons
  Lavukaleve
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: lvk

Lavukaleve is one of the four Central Solomons languages of the Solomon Islands. It is thus assumed to be the descendant of the languages spoken in the Solomon Islands before the spread of the much more numerous Austronesian languages. The name Lavukaleve derives from the ethnonym Lavukal. The Lavukals are the indigenous peoples of the Russell Islands, part of the Solomon Islands Central Province. A comprehensive grammatical description of Lavukaleve was published by Terrill in 2003.

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  • Terrill, Angela. 2003. A Grammar of Lavukaleve. Mouton Grammar Library, 30. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.