The South 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 Wurm, but this does not now seem tenable, and was abandoned in Ethnologue (2009).

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  • The South 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 Wurm, but this does not now seem tenable, and was abandoned in Ethnologue (2009). The languages include a closely related group called Nasioi and three more divergent languages tentatively classified together under the name Buin Buin branch Buin Motuna (Siwai) Uisai isolate Nasioi branch Koromira, Lantanai, Naasioi, Nagovisi (Sibe), Oune, Simeku
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  • East Bougainville
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  • Buin
  • Nasioi
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  • a primary family of Papuan languages
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  • Papuan
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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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  • South Bougainville
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  • The South 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 Wurm, but this does not now seem tenable, and was abandoned in Ethnologue (2009).
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  • South Bougainville languages
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