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 family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Papuan Tip Nuclear Suauic Suau
Language codes
ISO 639-3	swp
Glottolog	suau1242[4]

Suau, also known as Iou, is an Oceanic language spoken on the southeastern tip of Papua New Guinea.

External links

• Ekalesia Bukana (1895), Anglican Morning Prayer in Suau, digitized by Richard Mammana

References

1. Suau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. 14,000 as a lingua franca; perhaps this is the total number
3. Suau language at Ethnologue (10th ed., 1984). Note: Data may come from the 9th edition (1978).
4. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Suau". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.