South Bougainville languages

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The South Bougainville languages are a small group of Papuan languages spoken primarily in the southern part of Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Papuan language family
language family
arealClassification Papuan languages of Bougainville
arealFeature Papuan Tip–Bougainville contact zone NERFINISHED
continent Oceania
ethnologueGrouping South Bougainville NERFINISHED
familyColor Papuan
geographicDistribution southern part of Bougainville Island
glottologCode sout2852
hasAlternativeName South Bougainville family
South Bougainville stock
hasNotableLanguage Buin language NERFINISHED
Nagovisi language NERFINISHED
Nasioi language NERFINISHED
Siwai language NERFINISHED
hasPart Baitsi language NERFINISHED
Buin language NERFINISHED
Koromira language
Motuna language NERFINISHED
Nagovisi language NERFINISHED
Nasioi language NERFINISHED
Oria language NERFINISHED
Piva language NERFINISHED
Rapoisi language NERFINISHED
Siwai language NERFINISHED
Telei language
hasSubgroup Buinic languages
Nagovisi–Siwai languages NERFINISHED
Nasioiic languages
Piva–Telei languages NERFINISHED
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isPartOf Northwest Solomonic–Bougainville contact area NERFINISHED
languageBranchOf Papuan languages NERFINISHED
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED
macroArea Papunesia NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguageFamily North Bougainville languages NERFINISHED
Northwest Solomonic languages NERFINISHED
region southern Bougainville
spokenIn Autonomous Region of Bougainville NERFINISHED
Bougainville Island NERFINISHED
Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED
subclassOf Papuan languages
non-Austronesian languages
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
mostly SOV word order

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Siwai people languageFamily South Bougainville languages