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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Pacific > Papua New Guinea > Lusi

Lusi

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3khl

Population  2,000 (1994 SIL).
Region  West New Britain Province, northwest coast.
Language map  Papua New Guinea, Map 12, reference number 566
Alternate names   Kaliai
Dialects  Kaliai.
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic, North New Guinea, Ngero-Vitiaz, Ngero, Bariai
Language development  Grammar.
Comments  Distinct from Kove [kvc].

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

HAYWOOD, Graham; HAYWOOD, Irene, authors. 1980. "The languages and communities of north-western New Britain."