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Suau

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3: swp

Population	6,800 (Wurm and Hattori 1981). 10% monolingual.
Region	Milne Bay Province, southeasternmost Papua mainland.
Language map	Papua New Guinea, Map 17, reference number 771
Alternate names	Iou
Dialects	Daui (Fife Bay), Sinaki (Gaidasu, Gadaisu), Leileiafa, Bona Bona, Dahuni, Suau, Bonarua.
Classification	Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic, Papuan Tip, Nuclear, Suauic
Language use	Lingua franca of 14,000 in south coast areas.
Language development	Literacy rate in L2: high. NT: 1956–1962.
Writing system	Latin script.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

CAPELL, A; COOPER, Russ; EZARD, Bryan; JELLICO, Livingstone; LITHGOW, David; LYNCH, J; PAWLEY, A, others. n.d.. Suau Organised Phonology Data.  

COOPER, Russell E., author. 1996. "Can a ‘top-down’ CARLA emulate HARLA? Some discourse level considerations for our next generation of parsers."

HEALEY, Alan, editor. 1974. Three studies in languages of eastern Papua.