Lauan language

This article is about a language spoken in Fiji. For a language spoken in Solomon Islands, see Lau language (Malaita).
Lauan
Native to Fiji
Region Lau, Nayau, Lakeba, Oneata, Moce, Komo, Namuka, Kabara, Vulaga, Ogea, Vatoa islands
Native speakers
unknown (16,000 cited 1981)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 llx
Glottolog laua1243[2]

Lauan is an East Fijian language spoken by about 16,000 people on a number of islands of eastern Fiji.

References

  1. Lauan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lauan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.