Teop language
| Teop | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Bougainville |
Native speakers | (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.
External links
- Paradisec has two collections of Arthur Cappell's materials (AC1, AC2) that include Peop language materials and one collection from Lynne McDonald (NC1)
References
- ↑ Teop at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Teop". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ "DOBES: Documentation of Endangered Languages (Dokumentation Bedrohte Sprachen)". Retrieved 21 January 2012.
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