The island of Bougainville was torn by a civil war which lasted from 1989 to 1998. This war resulted in thousands of deaths ― an estimated 18,000 to 20,000 people lost their lives ― having a devastating effect on the speech population
ANDERE VON DER GEMEINSCHAFT GESPROCHENE SPRACHEN
Tok Pisin
English
ORTE
Teop island in the North East of the Bougainville, in the Tinputz district of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Informationen von: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press