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

How this entity was disambiguated

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

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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 ⓘ