Uisai language

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Uisai
Region Bougainville
Native speakers
(2,500 cited 1991) [1]
South Bougainville
  • Buinic
    • Buin
      • Uisai
Language codes
ISO 639-3 uis
Glottolog uisa1238
ELP Uisai

Uisai is a South Bougainville language of Bougainville Province, Papua New Guinea. It is in the Buin language subfamily. [2] The language uses Latin script. [3]

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References

  1. Uisai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. "Glottolog 2.7 - Buin". glottolog.org. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
  3. "Uisai". Ethnologue. Retrieved 19 January 2017.