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North Bougainville languages

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Geographic distribution
  
Bougainville Island

Glottolog
  
nort2933

Subdivisions
  
Keriaka Konua Rotokas

North Bougainville languages

Linguistic classification
  
One of the world's primary language families

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:

  • Keriaka (Ramopa) isolate
  • Konua (Rapoisi) isolate
  • Rotokas branch: Rotokas, Eivo (Askopan)

    • References

    North Bougainville languages Wikipedia
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