Lavukaleve language
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| Lavukaleve | ||
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| Spoken in: | Solomon Islands | |
| Region: | Russell Islands | |
| Total speakers: | 1783 (1999 SIL) | |
| Language family: | East Papuan (geographic) Central Solomons Lavukaleve |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | lvk | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
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 the linguist Angela Terrill in 2003[1].
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- ^ Terrill, Angela (2003). A Grammar of Lavukaleve, Mouton Grammar Library, 30. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter..
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