Lau language (Malaita)
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This article is about a language spoken in Solomon Islands. For a language spoken in Fiji, see Lauan language.
Lau | ||
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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 |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | – | |
ISO 639-3: | llu | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. |
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.