South Bougainville | |
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East Bougainville | |
Geographic distribution | Bougainville Island |
Linguistic classification | One of the world's primary language families |
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Language codes | |
Glottolog | sout2948 |
Language families of the Solomon Islands. South Bougainville |
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 as East Papuan languages by Stephen Wurm, but this does not now seem tenable, and was abandoned in Ethnologue (2009).