Endangered Languages Project - Bilua

Bilua

Classification: Isolate

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threatened

CLASSIFICATION		Isolate, Pacific
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		blb
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		"Bilua is sometimes grouped with the other Central Solomons languages and beyond (Wurm 1975b) but closer inspection shows that a genealogical relation is not demonstrable (Dunn and Terrill 2012, Terrill 2011)" (Hammarström, forthcoming).

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Information from: “Language isolates in the New Guinea region” . Harald Hammarström (2017) , Lyle Campbell, Thomas Dougherty, and Alexander D. Smith · London: Routledge

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
8,740
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: Solomon Islands

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Vella Lavella Island

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