The South Bougainville or East Bougainville languages are a small language family spoken on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. They were classified as East Papuan languages by Stephen Wurm, but this does not now seem tenable, and was abandoned in Ethnologue (2009). Languages The languages include a closely related group called Nasioi and three more divergent languages tentatively classified together under the name Buin: Buin branch ? Buin Motuna Uisai Nasioi branch Koromira Lantanai Naasioi Nagovisi Oune Simeku Proto-South Bougainville Pronouns Ross reconstructed three pronoun paradigms for proto-South Bougainville, free forms plus agentive and patientive (see morphosyntactic alignment) affixes: {| class=wikitable |- ! !!I!!we!!you!!s/he, they |- | free || *ni(ŋ) || *nee DL*ni PL || *da SG*dee DL*dai PL || *ba SG*bee DL*bai PL |- | patientive || colspan=2|*-m || *-d || *-b |- | agentive|| *a || *o || *i or *e || *u |} SG: singular; DL: dual; PL: plural Lexicon A detailed historical-comparative study of South Bougainville has been carried out by Evans (2009). Reconstructed Proto-South Bougainville lexicon from Evans (2009): Proto-South Bougainville reconstructed lexicon {| class="wikitable sortable" ! Gloss !! Proto-South Bougainville |- | blood || *ereŋ |- | bone || *kōna |- | ear || *rome |- | eye || *rutɔ |- | fat, grease || *titi |- | guts || *kō |- | hand (arm) || *komɔ |- | head || *bore |- | knee || *mī |- | left (hand) || *mɔre- |- | liver || *nonɔŋ |- | neck || *kuru |- | nose || *keni |- | right (hand) || *mē- |- | tongue || *meneŋ |- | wing || *kupɔ |- | three || *be- |- | four || *kɔre- |- | ten || *nɔraŋ |- | brother (older of male) || *batato |- | brother (older of male) || *tāta |- | child || *tōtō |- | daughter (my) || *norɔ |- | father || *bomɔ |- | husband || *bɔ[m,ŋ] |- | man || *nugaŋ |- | mother || *bōko |- | person || *nɔmm[e,ai] |- | name || *mīŋ |- | son (my) || *nuri |- | wife || *bana |- | cloud || *kɔmo |- | dust || *rɔmo |- | garden || *kɔti |- | island || *mɔto |- | ocean || *maira |- | sand || *piti(a) |- | sea || *piruŋ |- | sky || *pɔn(iŋ) |- | smoke ||