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

North Bougainville
West Bougainville
Geographic
distribution
Bougainville Island
Linguistic classificationOne of the world's primary language families
Subdivisions
Glottolognort2933
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:


Spoken Languages


There are about 9,000 speakers combined for all four North Bougainville languages.[1]


See also



References


  1. Stebbins, Tonya; Evans, Bethwyn; Terrill, Angela (2018). "The Papuan languages of Island Melanesia". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 775–894. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.



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