Lauan language

Lauan language

language
name=Lauan
nativename=
familycolor=Austronesian
states=Fiji
region=Lau, Nayau, Lakeba, Oneata, Moce, Komo, Namuka, Kabara, Vulaga, Ogea, Vatoa islands
speakers=16,000 (1981 P. Geraghty)
fam2=Malayo-Polynesian (MP)
fam3=Central-Eastern MP
fam4=Eastern MP
fam5=Oceanic
fam6=Central-Eastern Oceanic
fam7=Remote Oceanic
fam8=Central Pacific
fam9=East Fijian-Polynesian
fam10=East Fijian
nation=
iso3=llx

Lauan is an East Fijian language spoken by about 16,000 people on a number of islands of eastern Fiji.
*ethnologue|code=llx


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