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North Bougainville
West Bougainville
Geographic
distribution
Bougainville Island
Linguistic classificationOne of the world's primary language families
Subdivisions
  • Keriaka
  • Konua
  • Askopan–Rotokas
Glottolognort2933
Language families of the Solomon Islands.
  North Bougainville

The North Bougainville or West Bougainville languages are a small language family spoken on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. They were classified as East Papuan languages by Stephen Wurm, but this no longer seems tenable, and was abandoned in Ethnologue (2009).

The family includes the closely-related Rotokas and Eivo (Askopan) languages, together with two languages that are more distantly related:

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North Bougainville languages

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The North Bougainville or West Bougainville languages are a small language family spoken on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. They were classified...

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Autonomous Region of Bougainville

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250,000. The lingua franca of Bougainville is Tok Pisin, while a variety of Austronesian and non-Austronesian languages are also spoken. The region includes...

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South Bougainville languages

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The South Bougainville or East Bougainville languages are a small language family spoken on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. They were classified...

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Bougainville languages

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Bougainville languages may refer to either of the following language families of Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea. North Bougainville languages South...

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Bougainville Island

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needed] There are many indigenous languages in Bougainville Province, belonging to three language families. The languages of the northern end of the island...

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Northwest Solomonic languages

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of Northwest Solomonic languages is a branch of the Oceanic languages. It includes the Austronesian languages of Bougainville and Buka in Papua New Guinea...

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Rapoisi language

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Konua, also known as Rapoisi, is a language of Bougainville, an island to the east of New Guinea. /p/ is often pronounced as [ɸ] word initially /t̪/ does...

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North Bougainville District

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North Bougainville District is a district of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville of Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Buka on Buka Island. North Bougainville...

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Rotokas language

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Rotokas is a North Bougainville language spoken by about 4,320 people on the island of Bougainville, an island located to the east of New Guinea, which...

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Askopan language

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a. Eivo) is an East Papuan language of Bougainville, an island to the east of New Guinea. It is one of several languages in the area that go by the name...

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Papuan languages

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The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia...

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Ramopa language

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Keriaka (a.k.a. Ramopa) is an North Bougainville language (formerly classified as East Papuan) of Bougainville, an island to the east of New Guinea. Keriaka...

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Oceanic languages

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approximately 450 Oceanic languages are a branch of the Austronesian languages. The area occupied by speakers of these languages includes Polynesia, as well...

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List of language families

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continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019. "North Caucasian". Ethnologue...

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Louis Antoine de Bougainville

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took part in the Seven Years' War in North America and the American Revolutionary War against Britain. Bougainville later gained fame for his expeditions...

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Languages of Papua New Guinea

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Purari Tabo Baining North Bougainville South Bougainville Butam-Taulil Anêm Ata Kol Kuot Makolkol Sulka Yélî Dnye People speaking languages belonging to the...

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History of Bougainville

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Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea (PNG), has been inhabited by humans for at least 29,000 years, according to artefacts found in Kilu...

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Teop language

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the Nehan-Bougainville family of languages, part of the Northwest Solomonic group of the Meso-Melanesian cluster within the Oceanic languages. Its closest...

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East Papuan languages

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New Britain, New Ireland, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, and the Santa Cruz Islands. There is no evidence that these languages are related to each other...

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Languages of the Solomon Islands archipelago

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an independent family within the Papuan languages. Two other language families are represented on Bougainville, which forms part of the nation of Papua...

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Buka Island

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island in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, in eastern Papua New Guinea. It is in Buka Rural LLG of North Bougainville District, with the Autonomous Region's...

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Papua New Guinea

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Papua New Guinea include New Ireland, New Britain, Manus and Bougainville. Located north of the Australian mainland, the country's geography is diverse...

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Islands Region

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Austronesian languages, and archeological findings of Lapita pottery culture. The Region is administratively divided into five provinces: Bougainville (North Solomons)...

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Lawunuia language

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(also called Piva) is an Austronesian language spoken along the Piva river in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. It is closely related...

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Halia language

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Austronesian language of Buka Island and the Selau Peninsula of Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea. The phonology of the Halia language: Diphthong vowel...

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Nukuria language

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"Languages". Languages of the Bougainville District. Summer Institute of Linguistics. p. 56. Tryon, Darell (2015). "The Languages of Bougainville". In...

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Moses Havini

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campaigner for the independence of Bougainville from Papua New Guinea, beginning in the early 1970s. During the Bougainville Civil War he served as the official...

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