Suau language
| Suau | |
|---|---|
| Iou | |
| Region | Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers |
(6,800 cited 1981)[1] L2 speakers: 14,000[2] (no date)[3] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
swp |
| Glottolog |
suau1242[4] |
Suau, also known as Iou, is an Oceanic language spoken in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken by 6,800 people and a further 14,000 as a lingua franca.
External links
- Ekalesia Bukana (1895), Anglican Morning Prayer in Suau, digitized by Richard Mammana
References
- ↑ Suau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ 14,000 as a lingua franca; perhaps this is the total number
- ↑ Suau language at Ethnologue (10th ed., 1984). Note: Data may come from the 9th edition (1978).
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Suau". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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