Lio language

{{short description|Austronesian language spoken in Flores, Indonesia}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Lio

|pronunciation={{IPA|ljl|lio|}}

|altname=Li'o

|states=Indonesia

|region=Central Flores

|speakers={{sigfig|215,000|2}}

|date=2009 census

|ref=e22

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Central–Eastern MP

|fam4=Sumba–Flores

|fam5=Ende–Manggarai

|fam6=Central Flores

|script=

|iso3=ljl

|glotto=lioo1240

|glottorefname=Li'o

}}

Lio (also erroneously spelled Li'o) is an Austronesian language spoken in the central part of Flores, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands in the eastern half of Indonesia. It belongs to the Central Flores subgroup.{{cite thesis |last=Elias |first=Alexander |year=2019 |title=Lio and the Central Flores Languages |type=M.A. thesis |location=Leiden University |hdl=1887/69452 |hdl-access=free }}