Lou language (Austronesian)
Lou is a Southeast Admiralty Islands language spoken on Lou Island of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea by 1,000 people.[1]
| Lou | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Manus Province |
Native speakers | (1,000 cited 1994)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | loj |
| Glottolog | louu1245[2] |
Dialects
There are three dialects. The main dialect is Rei.
Grammar
Lou has thirteen consonants and seven vowels. It is a nominative–accusative language and has SVO word order.[3]
gollark: .navy? Is this for... countries' navies?
gollark: void.mortgage? WHO IS BUYING A SPECIFIC DOMAIN FOR MORTGAGE.
gollark: I don't know.
gollark: I'm looking at a list of ~350 void.whatever ones which are free.
gollark: SERIOUSLY? .lighting? This is so oddly specific.
References
- 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
External links
- A Lou dictionary
- Kaipuleohone archive of Robert Blust's materials include written and audio recorded materials
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