ISO 639-3 swp | Glottolog suau1242 | |
Region Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea Native speakers (6,800 cited 1981)
L2 speakers: 14,000 (no date) Language family Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Western
Papuan Tip
Nuclear
Suauic
Suau | ||
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.
References
Suau language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA