Buin language

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The Buin language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Buin people of southern Bougainville in Papua New Guinea.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Buin language canonical 5

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Statements (32)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
natural language
alternateName South Bougainville Buin
Tele'i
linked to: Telei

Telei
continent Oceania
country Papua New Guinea
ethnicGroup Buin people
family Austronesian languages
geneticClassification Austronesian > South Bougainville
hasDialects Buin Proper dialect
Rugara dialect
Telei dialect
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
prenasalized stops
ISO639-3Code buo
languageFamily Austronesian
locatedNear Solomon Sea
macroArea Papunesia
neighboringLanguage Motuna language
Nagovisi language
Siwai language
region Autonomous Region of Bougainville
spokenIn Bougainville Island
Papua New Guinea
southern Bougainville
status local language of Bougainville
subfamily South Bougainville languages
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
verb–subject–object word order (VSO) tendency
usedBy Buin community
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Buin people language Buin language
Southern Bougainville hasLanguage Buin language
South Bougainville languages hasPart Buin language