Teop language
Oceanic language spoken on Bougainville
Teop | |
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Bougainville |
Native speakers | (5,000 cited 1991)[1] |
Language family | Austronesian
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ISO 639-3 | tio |
Glottolog | teop1238 |
ELP | Teop |
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,[2] 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
External links
- The Teop sketch grammar
- Paradisec has two collections of Arthur Cappell's materials (AC1, AC2) that include Peop language materials and one collection from Lynne McDonald (NC1)
- Teop DoReCo corpus compiled by Ulrike Mosel. Audio recordings of narrative texts with transcriptions time-aligned at the phone level, translations, and time-aligned morphological annotations.
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