Teop language

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Teop
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Bougainville
Native speakers
unknown (5,000 cited 1991)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tio
Glottolog teop1238[2]

Teop is a language of northern Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. It falls within the Oceanic languages, a subgrouping of the Austronesian language family. According to Malcolm Ross,[3] Teop belongs to the Nehan-Bougainville family of languages, part of the Northwest Solomonic group of the Meso-Melanesian cluster within the Oceanic languages. Its closest relative is Saposa.

References

  1. Teop at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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