North Bougainville Languages
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:
- Keriaka (Ramopa) isolate
- Konua (Rapoisi) isolate
- Rotokas branch: Rotokas, Eivo (Askopan)
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