Luang language

Luang
Literi Lagona
Native to Indonesia
Region Babar Islands
Native speakers
18,000 (1995)[1]
Austronesian
Dialects
  • Lakor
  • Luang
  • Moa
  • Wetan (Wetang)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lex
Glottolog luan1263[2]

Luang, also known as Literi Lagona (Letri Lgona), is an Austronesian language spoken in the Leti Islands and the Babar Islands in Maluku, Indonesia. It is closely related to the neighboring Leti language, with 89% shared basic vocabulary.[3]

References

  1. Luang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Luang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Taber, Mark (1993). "Toward a Better Understanding of the Indigenous Languages of Southwestern Maluku." Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Winter, 1993), pp. 389–441. University of Hawai'i.
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