Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
Threatened
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
5,000
DATE OF INFO
1991
Information from: “Dokumentation Bedrohter Sprachen (DoBeS)” . Dokumentation Bedrohter Sprachen
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
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
Tok Pisin
English
PLACES
Teop island in the North East of the Bougainville, in the Tinputz district of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
