Teop language
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Teop | |
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Bougainville |
Native speakers
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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
- ↑ Teop at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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