North Bougainville languages

North Bougainville
West Bougainville
Geographic
distribution:		 Bougainville Island
Linguistic classification: One of the world's primary language families
Subdivisions:
  • Keriaka
  • Konua
  • Rotokas
Glottolog: nort2933[1]

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Language families of the Solomon Islands.
  North Bougainville

The North 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 does not now seem tenable, and was abandoned in Ethnologue (2009).

The family includes the closely related Rotokas and Eivo language, plus two languages that are only distantly related:

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "North Bougainville". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  • Structural Phylogenetics and the Reconstruction of Ancient Language History. Michael Dunn, Angela Terrill, Ger Reesink, Robert A. Foley, Stephen C. Levinson. Science magazine, 23 Sept. 2005, vol. 309, p 2072.
  • Malcolm Ross (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages." In: Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide and Jack Golson, eds, Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples, 15-66. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.


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