Lou language (Austronesian)

Lou
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Manus Province
Native speakers	(1,000 cited 1994)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Admiralty Islands Eastern Admiralty Islands Southeast Admiralty Islands Lou; ; ; ; ; ;
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.

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

gollark: I mean, <@!301092081827577866> wanted shorter code, they get shorter code.

gollark: It's an *approximation*...

gollark: Also, it does.

gollark: ```lua_=(#a==4 and e())```

gollark: ```lua_=(a:m"[eq][xu]it"and e())if #a==4 then e()end```For comparison.

Lou at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lou". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
http://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/handle/1993/1324

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