Teop language

Teop
Teop
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Bougainville
Native speakers	(5,000 cited 1991)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Meso-Melanesian Northwest Solomonic Nehan–Bougainville Saposa–Tinputz Teop; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tio
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

^ Teop at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
^ "DOBES: Documentation of Endangered Languages (Dokumentation Bedrohte Sprachen)". Retrieved 21 January 2012.

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[e17-1] Teop at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)

[dobes_ROSS-2] "DOBES: Documentation of Endangered Languages (Dokumentation Bedrohte Sprachen)". Retrieved 21 January 2012.

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