Loniu is anAustronesian language spoken along the southern coast ofLos Negros Island in theManus Province, immediately east ofManus Island inManus Province,Papua New Guinea. Loniu is spoken in the villages ofLoniu and Lolak, and there are estimated to be 450–500 native speakers, although some live in other Manus villages or on the mainland of Papua New Guinea.^[2]

Loniu generally fits with most of the observations made about Oceanic languages, specifically theAdmiralty Islands languages.^{[3][4][5][6][7]} The six morphosyntactic features of 'Type B' Oceanic Languages (which include the Admiralties languages) as noted by Ross are found in Loniu. The language is essentiallySVO and contains prepositions.

• Hamel, Patricia J. (1993). "Serial verbs in Loniu and an evolving preposition".Oceanic Linguistics.32 (1):111–132.doi:10.2307/3623099.JSTOR 3623099.
• Hamel, Patricia J. (1994).A Grammar and Lexicon of Loniu, Papua New Guinea. Pacific Linguistics Series C-103. Canberra: The Australian National University.doi:10.15144/PL-C103.hdl:1885/145798.

• Kaipuleohone'sRobert Blust collection includeswritten andrecorded materials from Loniu

This article aboutAdmiralty Islands languages is astub. You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Manus languages
• Languages of Manus Province
• Oceanic language stubs

• Language articles citing Ethnologue 25
• CS1 maint: location missing publisher
• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Language articles with old speaker data
• All stub articles