Motuna is a South Bougainville language spoken by about 7,000 people mainly in the Siwai Rural LLG in the southwest of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea.
Motuna is also known as Siwai, Siuwai or Siuai. Dialects include Baitsi, Mokuta and Pouko. It is related to Naasioi and Nagovisi, which are also spoken in Bougainville.
Download an alphabet chart for Motuna (Excel)
When k is preceded by u and followed by o, it is pronounced [kʷ]
Information about Motuna | Numbers
Information about Motuna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motuna_language
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Língua_siwai
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/50952771_A_Grammar_of_Motuna_Bougainville_Papua_New_Guinea
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/siw
https://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/channumerals/Motuna.htm
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 12.08.25 Last modified: 12.08.25
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