Leipon language

Leipon
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region off Manus Island
Native speakers
unknown (650 cited 1977)[1]
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lek
Glottolog leip1237[2]

Leipon, or Pityilu, is an Austronesian language spoken on Hauwai, Ndrilo, and Pityilu islands, just off Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.

References

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