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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...
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    250,000. The lingua franca of Bougainville is Tok Pisin, while a variety of Austronesian and non-Austronesian languages are also spoken. The region includes...
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    needed] There are many indigenous languages in Bougainville Province, belonging to three language families. The languages of the northern end of the island...
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  • Bougainville languages may refer to either of the following language families of Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea. North Bougainville languages South...
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    The South Bougainville or East Bougainville languages are a small language family spoken on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. They were classified...
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  • of Northwest Solomonic languages is a branch of the Oceanic languages. It includes the Austronesian languages of Bougainville and Buka in Papua New Guinea...
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  • Rotokas is a North Bougainville language spoken by about 4,320 people on the island of Bougainville, an island located to the east of New Guinea, which...
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  • North Bougainville District is a district of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville of Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Buka. North Bougainville languages...
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  • a. Eivo) is an East Papuan language of Bougainville, an island to the east of New Guinea. It is one of several languages in the area that go by the name...
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  • Keriaka (a.k.a. Ramopa) is an North Bougainville language (formerly classified as East Papuan) of Bougainville, an island to the east of New Guinea. Keriaka...
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    Region of Bougainville, in eastern Papua New Guinea. It is administered under Buka Rural LLG. It is the capital of the North Bougainville District and...
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    Solomon Islands (archipelago) (category Autonomous Region of Bougainville)
    Papuan languages native to the archipelago: the North Bougainville languages, South Bougainville languages, and the Central Solomon languages. The predominant...
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  • continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019. "North Caucasian". Ethnologue...
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    The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia...
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    approximately 450 Oceanic languages are a branch of the Austronesian languages. The area occupied by speakers of these languages includes Polynesia, as well...
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  • Rapoisi, is a language of Bougainville, an island to the east of New Guinea. Müller, Adam. 1954. Grammatical notes on the Konua language. Posieux: Inst...
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    Purari Tabo Baining North Bougainville South Bougainville Butam-Taulil Anêm Ata Kol Kuot Makolkol Sulka Yélî Dnye People speaking languages belonging to the...
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    Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea (PNG), has been inhabited by humans for at least 29,000 years, according to artefacts found in Kilu...
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    took part in the Seven Years' War in North America and the American Revolutionary War against Britain. Bougainville later gained fame for his expeditions...
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    Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. It is administered under Arawa Rural LLG. The town was largely destroyed during the Bougainville Civil War...
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  • New Britain, New Ireland, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, and the Santa Cruz Islands. There is no evidence that these languages are related to each other...
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    an independent family within the Papuan languages. Two other language families are represented on Bougainville, which forms part of the nation of Papua...
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    Buka Island (category Geography of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville)
    island in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, in eastern Papua New Guinea. It is in Buka Rural LLG of North Bougainville District, with the Autonomous Region's...
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  • the Nehan-Bougainville family of languages, part of the Northwest Solomonic group of the Meso-Melanesian cluster within the Oceanic languages. Its closest...
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    Papua New Guinea (category Articles containing Tok Pisin-language text)
    Papua New Guinea include New Ireland, New Britain, Manus and Bougainville. Located north of the Australian mainland, the country's geography is diverse...
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    Austronesian languages, and archeological findings of Lapita pottery culture. The Region is administratively divided into five provinces: Bougainville (North Solomons)...
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  • Austronesian language of Buka Island and the Selau Peninsula of Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea. The phonology of the Halia language: Diphthong vowel...
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  • Nehan, also known as Nissan, is an Austronesian language of Nissan Island, north of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. Nehan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)...
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    languages, but found no such signature at all in Papuan-speaking groups. Most of the languages of Melanesia are members of the Austronesian language family...
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  • Guinea and Melanesia with the languages of the Andaman Islands (or at least Great Andamanese) and, tentatively, the languages of Tasmania, both of which...
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