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Teop is a language of northern [[Bougainville Island|Bougainville]], [[Papua New Guinea]]. It belongs to the [[Nehan-Bougainville languages|Nehan-Bougainville]] family of languages, part of the Northwest Solomonic group of the Meso-melanesian cluster, according to Ross in 1998 <ref name="dobes_ROSS">{{cite web|url=http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/teop|title=DOBES: Documentation of Endangered Languages (Dokumentation Bedrohte Sprachen)|accessdate=21 January 2012}}</ref> - it falls within the [[Oceanic languages]], a subgrouping of the [[Austronesian languages|Austronesian]] language family. Its closest relative is Saposa.
Teop is a language of northern [[Bougainville Island|Bougainville]], [[Papua New Guinea]]. It falls within the [[Oceanic languages]], a subgrouping of the [[Austronesian languages|Austronesian]] language family. According to [[Malcolm Ross]] <ref name="dobes_ROSS">{{cite web|url=http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/teop|title=DOBES: Documentation of Endangered Languages (Dokumentation Bedrohte Sprachen)|accessdate=21 January 2012}}</ref>, Teop belongs to the [[Nehan-Bougainville languages|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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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 [1], 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.


  1. ^ "DOBES: Documentation of Endangered Languages (Dokumentation Bedrohte Sprachen)". Retrieved 21 January 2012.

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