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| Motuna | |
|---|---|
| Siwai | |
| Region | Bougainville |
Native speakers | (7,000 cited 1970[1])[2] |
South Bougainville
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | siw |
| Glottolog | siwa1245 |
Motuna, or Siwai, is a Papuan language of Bougainville Province, Papua New Guinea. It is spoken primarily in Siwai Rural LLG. The current number of speakers is difficult to estimate since the latest figure (6,000 + 600) is from the 1970 census. [1]: 115
- ^ a b Onishi, Masayuki (2000). "Transitivity and valency-changing derivations in Motuna". In Dixon, R.M.W. & Aikhenvald, Alexendra Y. Changing Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity. Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Motuna at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)