Lawunuia | |
Also Known As: | Piva |
States: | Papua New Guinea |
Region: | Piva River, Bougainville Province |
Speakers: | 2,000 |
Date: | 2000 |
Ref: | e27 |
Familycolor: | Austronesian |
Fam3: | Oceanic |
Fam4: | Western |
Fam5: | Meso-Melanesian |
Fam6: | Northwest Solomonic |
Fam7: | Piva–Banoni |
Iso3: | tgi |
Glotto: | lawu1237 |
Glottorefname: | Lawunuia |
Lawunuia (also called Piva) is an Austronesian language spoken along the Piva river in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. It is closely related to Banoni;[1] together, Lawununia and Banoni make up one of the five primary branches of Northwest Solomonic, a major subgroup of the Oceanic languages.[2]