Lawunuia language

Lawunuia
Piva
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionPiva River, Bougainville Province
Native speakers
2,000 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3tgi
Glottologlawu1237

Lawunuia (also called Piva) is an Austronesian language spoken along the Piva river in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea.[2] It is closely related to Banoni;[3] together, Lawununia and Banoni make up one of the five primary branches of Northwest Solomonic, a major subgroup of the Oceanic languages.[4]

References

  1. ^ Lawunuia at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Lawunuia at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
  3. ^ Lincoln, Peter C. (1976). "Banoni, Piva and Papuanization". In Reesink, G.P.; Fleischmann, L.; Turpeinen, S.; Lincoln, P.C. (eds.). Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 19. Pacific Linguistics. pp. 77–110. doi:10.15144/PL-A45.77.
  4. ^ Ross, Malcolm (1988). Proto-Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of western Melanesia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University.


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