North Bougainville languages

North Bougainville
West Bougainville
Geographic
distribution
Bougainville Island
Linguistic classificationOne of the world's primary language families
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottolognort2933
Language families of the Solomon Islands.
  North Bougainville

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 no longer seems tenable, and was abandoned in Ethnologue (2009).

The family includes the closely-related Rotokas and Eivo (Askopan) languages, together with two languages that are more distantly related: