Suau language - Suau language
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| 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
- Paradisec has a number of collections of Suau materials, including two collections of Arthur Cappell's (AC1, AC2).
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, eds. (2017). "Suau". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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