Taupota language

Taupota
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Milne Bay Province
Native speakers
 4,500 (2000–2001)[1]
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
tpa – Taupota
wag – Wa'ema
wed – Wedau
Glottolog taup1242  Taupota[2]
waem1237  Wa'ema[3]
weda1241  Wedau[4]

Taupota is an Oceanic language of the Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. It appears to be a dialect chain, with southern varieties called Wa'ema and western Wedau.

References

  1. ↑ Taupota at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Wa'ema at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Wedau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Taupota". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Wa'ema". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Wedau". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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