Teop is a language of northern
Bougainville,
Papua New Guinea
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. It falls within the
Oceanic languages
The approximately 450 Oceanic languages are a branch of the Austronesian languages. The area occupied by speakers of these languages includes Polynesia, as well as much of Melanesia and Micronesia. Though covering a vast area, Oceanic languages ...
, a subgrouping of the
Austronesian
Austronesian may refer to:
*The Austronesian languages
*The historical Austronesian peoples
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language family. According to
Malcolm Ross,
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
External links
The Teop sketch grammar* Paradisec has two collections of
Arthur Cappell's materials
AC1AC2
that include Peop language materials and one collection from Lynne McDonald
NC1
Northwest Solomonic languages
Languages of Papua New Guinea
Languages of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville
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