Teop language
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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
[edit]- ^ Teop at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "DOBES: Documentation of Endangered Languages (Dokumentation Bedrohte Sprachen)". Retrieved 21 January 2012.
External links
[edit]- 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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