Laka or Lau is a Central Sudanic language spoken in Nigeria. It is most closely related to Kabba Laka of Chad. The Hausa refer to the Laka people of Lau as . The language was only recently documented in the mid-2010s, and had been previously misclassified as a Mbum language along with Lau.
Laka speakers live in Laka ward of Lau LGA (Hausa: ; formerly 'Laka town'), Taraba State, eastern Nigeria. They live alongside the Win Lau (or Lau proper; formerly Lau Habe), who are Jukunoid speakers.
The following table compares Laka (Lau) and Laka (Chad), both of which are Central Sudanic languages, with Lau proper, a Jukunoid language.