Terei language
| Terei | |
|---|---|
| Buin | |
| Region | Bougainville |
Native speakers | 27,000 (2003)[1] |
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South Bougainville
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
buo |
| Glottolog |
tere1278[2] |
Terei or Buin, also known as Telei, Rugara, is the 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 Guinea.
External links
- Paradisec has a number of collections with materials for Terei language two collections of Arthur Cappell's materials (AC1, AC2).
References
- ↑ Terei at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Terei". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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