North Bougainville languages
- North Bougainville languages
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| North Bougainville |
| West Bougainville |
Geographic
distribution: |
Bougainville Island |
| Linguistic classification: |
a primary family of Papuan languages |
| Subdivisions: |
Keriaka
Konua
Rotokas
|
Language families of the Solomon Islands.
Red: North Bougainville.
Blue: South Bougainville.
Green: Central Solomons.
Grey: Austronesian.
Orange: Yele (out of area)
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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)
See also
References
- 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.
- Malcom 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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