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North Bougainville languages map

4 North Bougainville languages are on the map, most of them in Papua New Guinea. The best-known members include Rotokas. Only this family is drawn; tap the map to list every language at a spot.

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Key

Language families (largest ten)

Atlantic-Congo
Austronesian
Sino-Tibetan
Indo-European
Afro-Asiatic
Nuclear Trans New Guinea
Otomanguean
Austroasiatic
Tai-Kadai
Pama-Nyungan

Everything else

All other families Smaller families, isolates and unclassified languages.
Point A language with no area map. The dot sits at its Glottolog position, in its family colour.

How to read the map. Each colour is a language family: a group of languages that share a common ancestor. The ten largest families have their own colour and every other family is grey. Areas are see-through, so where two languages share a place the colours mix. Tap anywhere to list every language whose area covers that spot. Areas are generalisations drawn from published atlases, many of them decades old, and cities are multilingual, so an area never says that everyone there speaks the language. A dot marks a language that has no area map. The family name is always given in words, because colour alone is hard to tell apart for some people.

The North Bougainville family at a glance

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Colours on the map mark the ten largest families; this page’s filter shows North Bougainville alone. Areas are generalisations from published atlases and overlap with the areas of other families.

Biggest North Bougainville languages

By approximate speaker counts from Wikidata, each with its source and year on its own page.

Where is Rotokas spoken? (about 4,320 speakers)

Where North Bougainville languages are spoken

Countries with the most North Bougainville languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

Papua New Guinea (4)

All 4 North Bougainville languages, A to Z

Questions about North Bougainville languages

How many North Bougainville languages are there?

4 living North Bougainville languages are on this map, in the Glottolog classification. Other classifications group languages differently, so totals vary.

Where are North Bougainville languages spoken?

Papua New Guinea (4) have the most North Bougainville languages, with the number of languages in brackets.