Teop

Facts

  • Language: Teop
  • Alternate names: Teapu
  • Language code: tio
  • Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, Meso Melanesian linkage, New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic linkage, St George linkage, Northwest Solomonic, North Bougainville Oceanic, Nuclear North Bougainville Oceanic, Buka, Saposa-Tinputz, Tinputzic
  • Number of speakers: 5000
  • Vulnerability: Threatened [Read more...]
  • Script:

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    Introduction

    Teop is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Bougainville Province, Tinputz district, northeast.

    Dialects

    Coastal Teop, Kosina Mohina, Manava, Rausara (Rausiara), Taunita. Coastal Teop speakers understand other dialects, and vice versa. Coastal Teop is 84% cognate with Rausara, 73% with Taunita dialects.

    The Teop Verb

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