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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Nagovisi, or Sibe, is a South Bougainville language spoken in the mountains of southern Bougainville Province, Papua New Guinea. Nagovisi makes use of...
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  • language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...
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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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  • Uisai is a South Bougainville language of Bougainville Province, Papua New Guinea. It is in the Buin language subfamily. The language uses Latin script...
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  • district has four local-level governments. Its capital is Buin. South Bougainville languages are spoken in the district. Districts of Papua New Guinea at...
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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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  • Simeku is a South Bougainville language spoken in the mountains of southern Bougainville Province, Papua New Guinea. Simeku at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)...
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  • Koromira is a South Bougainville language spoken in the mountains of southern Bougainville Province, Papua New Guinea. Koromira at Ethnologue (18th ed...
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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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  • Oune (Ounge) is a South Bougainville language spoken in the mountains of southern Bougainville Province, Papua New Guinea. Oune at Ethnologue (18th ed...
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  • Donald Laycock (category Linguists of South Bougainville languages)
    Ndu languages (1965), and established the existence of this closely related group of languages. In subsequent surveys, Laycock found the Ndu languages were...
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  • Motuna, or Siwai, is a Papuan language of Bougainville Province, Papua New Guinea. It is spoken primarily in Siwai Rural LLG. The current number of speakers...
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  • Talk, Aunge) is an East Papuan language spoken in the central mountains and southeast coast of Kieta District, Bougainville Province, Papua New Guinea. Nasals...
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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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  • most populous Papuan language spoken to the east of New Guinea. There are about 27,000 speakers in the Buin District of Bougainville Province, Papua New...
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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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    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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    Tabo Baining North Bougainville South Bougainville Butam-Taulil Anêm Ata Kol Kuot Makolkol Sulka Yélî Dnye People speaking languages belonging to the Austronesian...
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  • Lantanai (Daantanaiʼ) is an East Papuan language spoken in the mountains of southern Bougainville Province, Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Piruneuʼ...
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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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  • China Xibe language, language of Sibe people Sibe Mardešić (1927–2016), Croatian mathematician Nagovisi language, a South Bougainville language spoken in...
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    Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville (/ˈbuːɡənvɪl/, US also /ˌbuːɡæ̃ˈviːl/, French: [lwi ɑ̃twan də buɡɛ̃vil]; 12 November 1729 – 31 August 1811) was a...
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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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