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