North Bougainville languages
Language family
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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 as East Papuan languages by Stephen Wurm, but this no longer seems tenable, and was abandoned in Ethnologue (2009).
Geographic
distributionBougainville Island
distributionBougainville Island
Linguistic classificationOne of the world's primary language families
| North Bougainville | |
|---|---|
| West Bougainville | |
| Geographic distribution | Bougainville Island |
| Linguistic classification | One of the world's primary language families |
| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | nort2933 |
Language families of the Solomon Islands. North Bougainville | |
The family includes the closely related Rotokas and Eivo (Askopan) languages, together with two languages that are more distantly related.