Lau language (Malaita)

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Lau
Spoken in: Solomon Islands 
Region: Northeast Malaita Island
Total speakers: 16,937 (1999 SIL)
Language family: Austronesian
 Malayo-Polynesian (MP)
  Central-Eastern MP
   Eastern MP
    Oceanic
     Central-Eastern Oceanic
      Southeast Solomonic
       Malaita-San Cristobal
        Malaita
         Northern Malaita
          Lau
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: 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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