Social:Laua language

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Short description: Extinct language of Papua New Guinea
Laua
RegionPapua New Guinea
Extinct1990se25
Language codes
ISO 639-3luf
Glottologlaua1245[1]
Lang Status 20-CR.svg
Laua is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Laua, also known as Labu, is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is (or was) spoken in the Central Province, north and west of Laua according to Ethnologue. Laua had only one remaining speaker in 1987, and is now extinct.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Laua". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/laua1245.