Oune Language

	Oune Language Oune (''Ounge'') is an East Papuan language spoken in the mountains of southern Bougainville Province, Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i .... References Languages of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville South Bougainville languages {{papuan-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia). Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The country is the world's third largest island country, with an area of . At the national level, after being ruled by three external powers since 1884, including nearly 60 years of Australian administration starting during World War I, Papua New Guinea established its sovereignty in 1975. It became an independent Commonwealth realm in 1975 with Elizabeth II as its queen. It also became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations in its own right. There are 839 known languages of Papua New Guinea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Bougainville Province Bougainville ( ; ; Tok Pisin: ''Bogenvil''), officially the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (Tok Pisin: ''Otonomos Region bilong Bogenvil''), is an autonomous region in Papua New Guinea. The largest island is Bougainville Island, while the region also includes Buka Island and a number of outlying islands and atolls. The interim capital is Buka, although this is considered temporary, with the capital likely to move. One potential location is Arawa, the previous capital. In 2011, the region had an estimated population of 250,000 people. The lingua franca of Bougainville is Tok Pisin, while a variety of Austronesian and non-Austronesian languages are also spoken. The region includes several Polynesian outliers where Polynesian languages are spoken. Geographically the islands of Bougainville and Buka are part of the Solomon Islands archipelago, but are politically separate from the independent country of Solomon Islands. Historically the region was known as the North Solomon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	South Bougainville Languages The South Bougainville 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 Stephen Wurm, but this does not now seem tenable, and was abandoned in '' Ethnologue'' (2009). Languages 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 Uisai Nasioi branch * Koromira Lantanai Naasioi Nagovisi Oune Simeku Proto-South Bougainville Pronouns Ross reconstructed three pronoun paradigms for proto-South Bougainville, free forms plus agentive and patientive (see morphosyntactic alignment) affixes: : :''SG: singular; DL: dual; PL: plural'' Lexicon A detailed historical-comparative study of South Bougainville has been carried out by Evans (2009).Evans, Bethwyn. 2009. Beyond pronouns: further evidence for South Bougainville. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Nasioi Languages The South Bougainville 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 Stephen Wurm, but this does not now seem tenable, and was abandoned in '' Ethnologue'' (2009). Languages 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 Uisai Nasioi branch * Koromira Lantanai Naasioi Nagovisi Oune Simeku Proto-South Bougainville Pronouns Ross reconstructed three pronoun paradigms for proto-South Bougainville, free forms plus agentive and patientive (see morphosyntactic alignment) affixes: : :''SG: singular; DL: dual; PL: plural'' Lexicon A detailed historical-comparative study of South Bougainville has been carried out by Evans (2009).Evans, Bethwyn. 2009. Beyond pronouns: further evidence for South Bougainville. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	East Papuan Languages The East Papuan languages is a defunct proposal for a family of Papuan languages spoken on the islands to the east of New Guinea, including New Britain, New Ireland, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, and the Santa Cruz Islands. There is no evidence that these languages are related to each other, and the Santa Cruz languages are no longer recognized as Papuan. All but two of the starred languages below ( Yélî Dnye and Sulka) make a gender distinction in their pronouns. Several of the heavily Papuanized Austronesian languages of New Britain do as well. This suggests a pre-Austronesian language area in the region. History of the proposal The East Papuan languages were proposed as a family by linguist Stephen Wurm (1975) and others. However, their work was preliminary, and there is little evidence that the East Papuan languages actually have a genetic relationship. For example, none of these fifteen languages marked with asterisks below share more than 2–3% of their basic voc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]