Social:Laua language
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Short description: Extinct language of Papua New Guinea
| Laua | |
|---|---|
| Region | Papua New Guinea |
| Extinct | 1990se25 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | luf |
| Glottolog | laua1245[1] |
 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
- ↑ 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.
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