Lau (Law) is a

Jukunoid The Jukunoid languages are a branch of the Benue-Congo languages spoken by the Jukun people (West Africa), Jukun and related peoples of Nigeria and Cameroon. They are distributed mostly throughout Taraba State, Nigeria and surrounding regions. ...

language of

Lau Lau or LAU may refer to: People * Lau (surname) * Liu (劉/刘), a common Chinese family name transliterated Lau in Cantonese and Hokkien * Lau clan, one of the Saraswat Brahmin clans of Punjab * LAU (musician): Laura Fares Places * Lebane ...

LGA,

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. Lau speakers claim that their language is mutually intelligible with the

language varieties spoken in Kunini, Bandawa, and Jeshi. They also live alongside the

Central Sudanic Central Sudanic is a family of about sixty languages that have been included in the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family. Central Sudanic languages are spoken in the Central African Republic, Chad, South Sudan, Uganda, Congo (DRC), Nigeria and ...

-speaking

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Hausa Hausa may refer to: * Hausa people, an ethnic group of West Africa * Hausa language, spoken in West Africa * Hausa Kingdoms, a historical collection of Hausa city-states * Hausa (horse) or Dongola horse, an African breed of riding horse See also * ...

name: ''Lakawa''), who live in Laka ward of

LGA.Idiatov, Dmitry, Mark Van de Velde, Tope Olagunju and Bitrus Andrew. 2017.
Results of the first AdaGram survey in Adamawa and Taraba States, Nigeria
'. 47th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL) (Leiden, Netherlands). Lau had been previously misclassified as a

Mbum Mbum Proper (also Mboum, Buna, Mboumtiba and Wuna) is a Adamawa–Ubangi language of Central Africa. It is spoken by about people in Cameroon and the Central African Republic. History The Mbum language is spoken by the Mbum people who inhabit ...

language along with

Names

Names for the Lau language, people, and town: *Town name: ''Làw'' (literally ‘mud’) *People: ''Wĩ̄ Lâw'' ‘people of

’ *People (

name): ''Lau haaɓe'' ‘the indigenous of Lau’ (from

Fula Fula may refer to: *Fula people (or Fulani, Fulɓe) *Fula language (or Pulaar, Fulfulde, Fulani) **The Fula variety known as the Pulaar language **The Fula variety known as the Pular language **The Fula variety known as Maasina Fulfulde *Al-Fula ...

''haaɓe'' ‘servants, slaves, non-Fulani’) *Language: ''Wĩ̄ Lâwmã̄'' ‘the language of the people of Lau’

Sample words

Some sample words in Lau from Idiatov (2017):

References

{{Platoid languages Jukunoid languages Languages of Nigeria