Lou_language_(Austronesian) Knowpia

Lou
Lou
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Manus Province
Native speakers	(1,000 cited 1994)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Admiralty Islands Eastern Admiralty Islands Southeast Admiralty Islands Lou; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	loj
Glottolog	louu1245

Lou is a Southeast Admiralty Islands language spoken on Lou Island of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea by 1,000 people.^[1]

Dialects edit

There are three dialects. The main dialect is Rei.

Lou has thirteen consonants and seven vowels. It is a nominative–accusative language and has subject–verb–object (SVO) word order.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Lou at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Stutzman, Verna (1997). A Study of the Lou Verb Phrase (MA thesis). University of Manitoba. hdl:1993/1324.

A Lou dictionary
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