| Bilua | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Solomon Islands |
| Region | Vella Lavella Island, Western Province |
Native speakers | (8,700 cited 1999)[1] |
Central Solomon
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | blb |
| Glottolog | bilu1245 |
| ELP | Bilua |
 Bilua is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
7°55′S 156°40′E / 7.92°S 156.66°EBilua (also known as Mbilua or Vella Lavella)[2] is the most populous Papuan language spoken in the Solomon Islands.[3] It is a Central Solomon language spoken by about 9,000 people on the island of Vella Lavella. It is one of the four Papuan non-Austronesian languages spoken in the Solomon Islands.[4]
- ^ Bilua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "OLAC resources in and about the Bilua language". www.language-archives.org. Retrieved 2017-05-01.
- ^ Woodley (2002)
- ^ Obata (2003), p. 1