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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