Lawunuia language

Lawunuia (also called Piva) is an Austronesian language spoken along the Piva river in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea.^[2] It is closely related to Banoni;^[3] together, Lawununia and Banoni make up one of the five primary branches of Northwest Solomonic, a major subgroup of the Oceanic languages.^[4]

Lawunuia
Piva
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Piva River, Bougainville Province
Native speakers	(2,000 cited 2000)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Meso-Melanesian Northwest Solomonic Piva–Banoni Lawunuia
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tgi
Glottolog	lawu1237