Lau (Malaita)

E148551

Lau (Malaita) is an Oceanic language of the Meso-Melanesian group spoken on Malaita Island in the Solomon Islands.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Lau language (Malaita) 6
Lau (Malaita Province) 1
Lau (Malaita language) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
language
continent Oceania
country Solomon Islands
ethnicGroup Malaitan people
surface form: Lau people of Malaita
geographicDistribution north and northeast coasts of Malaita Island
hasAlternativeName Lau
hasDialects Northern Lau
Southern Lau
hasGlottocode laum1246
hasGlottologName Lau (Malaita) self-linksurface differs
surface form: Lau (Malaita Province)
hasLinguisticClassificationLevel language (not dialect)
hasLinguisticTypology head-marking language
prepositional language
hasNeighbouringLanguage Fataleka
Kwaro'ae
Toabaita
surface form: To'abaita
hasParentLanguageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian

Meso-Melanesian languages
surface form: Meso-Melanesian subgroup

Oceanic
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported)
simple consonant inventory (typical Oceanic)
hasStatus minority language in Solomon Islands
ISO639-3Code llu
isPartOf Papuan languages of the Solomon Islands
surface form: Central Solomon languages (broad areal grouping)
languageFamily Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian languages
surface form: Malayo-Polynesian

Meso-Melanesian languages
surface form: Meso-Melanesian

Oceanic
region Malaita Province
spokenIn Malaita Island NERFINISHED
Solomon Islands
subclassOf Central–Eastern Oceanic languages
surface form: Central-Eastern Oceanic language

Malayo-Polynesian language
Meso-Melanesian language
usedAlongside English (Solomon Islands)
Solomon Islands Pijin
usedFor daily communication
traditional oral literature
wordOrder SVO
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Southeast Solomonic languages hasMember Lau (Malaita)
this entity surface form: Lau language (Malaita)
Malaita hasLanguage Lau (Malaita)
this entity surface form: Lau language (Malaita)
Baeggu neighboringLanguage Lau (Malaita)
this entity surface form: Lau (Malaita language)
Lau (Malaita) hasGlottologName Lau (Malaita) self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Lau (Malaita Province)
Toʻabaita language isSpokenNear Lau (Malaita)
this entity surface form: Lau language (Malaita)
Toʻabaita language isRelatedTo Lau (Malaita)
this entity surface form: Lau language (Malaita)
Fataleka language neighboringLanguage Lau (Malaita)
this entity surface form: Lau language (Malaita)
Malaita languages hasMember Lau (Malaita)
this entity surface form: Lau language (Malaita)