| North Bougainville | |
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| West Bougainville | |
| Geographic distribution: |
Bougainville Island |
| Linguistic classification: | a primary family of Papuan languages |
| Subdivisions: |
Keriaka
Konua
Rotokas
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Language families of the Solomon Islands.
Red: North Bougainville. Blue: South Bougainville. Green: Central Solomons. Grey: Austronesian. Orange: Yele (out of area) |
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The North 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).
The family includes the closely related Rotokas and Eivo language, plus two languages that are only distantly related: