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Bilua language

Bilua (ISO 639-3 code blb) is a language isolate spoken in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. It has about 8,740 speakers. The Endangered Languages Project lists it as threatened.

Facts

ISO 639-3 codeblb
Glottocodebilu1245
FamilyIsolate (no known relatives)
AreaPapunesia
CountriesPapua New Guinea, Solomon Islands
Speakers (estimate)8,740
EndangermentThreatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

More about Bilua

Classification, area and countries: Glottolog (CC BY 4.0). Endangerment status and speaker estimate: Endangered Languages Project. Speaker numbers are estimates and differ between sources.