Buhutu language
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Austronesian language spoken in Papua New GuineaTemplate:SHORTDESC:Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea
| Buhutu | |
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| Region | Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 1,400 (2003)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bxh |
| Glottolog | buhu1237 |
| ELP | Lua error in Module:Endangered_Languages_Project at line 21: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
Buhutu (Bohutu) is an Oceanic language spoken in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. Most Buhutu speakers live in the Sagarai River Valley between Mullins Harbour on the south coast and the Pima mountains north of the Sagarai.
Alphabet
[edit | edit source]Buhutu language has 19 letters (Aa, Bb, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Ss, Tt, Uu, Ww, Yy), glottal stop and seven diphthongs (bw, fw, gw, hw, kw, mw, pw).[citation needed]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Buhutu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
External links
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