Lou language (Austronesian)

Not to be confused with Torricelli language.
Lou
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Manus Province
Native speakers
1,000 (1994)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 loj
Glottolog louu1245[2]

Lou is a Southeast Admiralty Islands language spoken on Lou Island of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea by 1,000 people.[1]

Dialects

There are three dialects. The main dialect is Rei.

Grammar

Lou has thirteen consonants and seven vowels. It is an nominative–accusative language and has SVO word order.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Lou at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lou". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. http://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/handle/1993/1324

External links

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