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]
| 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 |
References
edit- ^ Lawunuia at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
- ^ Lawunuia at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
- ^ 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.
- ^ Ross, Malcolm (1988). Proto-Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of western Melanesia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University.
