South Bougainville languages
- South Bougainville languages
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| South Bougainville |
| East Bougainville |
Geographic
distribution: |
Bougainville Island |
| Linguistic classification: |
a primary family of Papuan languages |
| Subdivisions: |
Buin
Nasioi
|
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 South or East 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 Wurm, but this does not now seem tenable, and was abandoned in Ethnologue (2009).
The languages include a closely related group called Nasioi and three more divergent languages tentatively classified together under the name Buin:
- Buin branch
- Buin isolate
- Motuna (Siwai) isolate
- Uisai isolate
- Nasioi branch: Koromira, Lantanai, Naasioi, Nagovisi (Sibe), Oune, Simeku
Pronouns
Ross reconstructed three pronoun paradigms for proto-South Bougainville, free forms plus agentive and patientive (see morphosyntactic alignment) affixes:
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|
I |
we |
you |
s/he, they |
| free |
*ni(ŋ) |
*nee DL
*ni PL |
*da SG
*dee DL
*dai PL |
*ba SG
*bee DL
*bai PL |
| patientive |
*-m |
*-d |
*-b |
| agentive |
*a |
*o |
*i or *e |
*u |
- SG: singular; DL: dual; PL: plural
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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