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 Babar Islands in Maluku, Indonesia. It shares much vocabulary with the neighboring Leti language.

References

  1. ↑ Luang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Luang". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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