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Lawunuia
Piva
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Piva River, Bougainville Province
Native speakers
2,000 (2000) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tgi
Glottolog lawu1237

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.


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Piva language)
Lawunuia
Piva
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Piva River, Bougainville Province
Native speakers
2,000 (2000) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tgi
Glottolog lawu1237

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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