Lawunuia language
| Lawunuia | |
|---|---|
| Piva | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Piva River, Bougainville Province |
Native speakers | (2,000 cited 2000) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tgi |
| Glottolog | lawu1237 |
Lawunuia (also called Piva) is an Austronesian language spoken along the Piva river in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. It is closely related to Banoni; together, Lawununia and Banoni make up one of the five primary branches of Northwest Solomonic, a major subgroup of the Oceanic languages.