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Teop
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Bougainville
Native speakers
(5,000 cited 1991) [1]
Language codes
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

  1. ^ Teop at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "DOBES: Documentation of Endangered Languages (Dokumentation Bedrohte Sprachen)". Retrieved 21 January 2012.

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.