Tetepare is an extinct language of

Tetepare Island Tetepare Island is the largest uninhabited island in the South Pacific, located at . It is a part of Western Province of the Solomon Islands. It covers approximately . Tetepare supports pristine lowland rainforest and a rich inshore marine area. ...

. According to local oral history, the indigenous people of the now-uninhabited island of

Tetepare Tetepare Island is the largest uninhabited island in the South Pacific, located at . It is a part of Western Province of the Solomon Islands. It covers approximately . Tetepare supports pristine lowland rainforest and a rich inshore marine area ...

spoke their own language, different from the other languages of the region.

Classification

Published materials are insufficient to establish whether this language was an Austronesian language like most of the surrounding languages ( Roviana, Marovo and the rest of the New Georgia subgroup), or a non-Austronesian language like neighboring Touo. Language maps sometimes show the Touo language extending to

, but this seems to be an accident.

References

*Read, John; Moseby, Vertebrates of Tetepare Island, Solomon Islands 1. Katherine Pacific Science, Jan 2006, Vol.60(1), pp.69-79 *Caldwell, Roy L, An Observation of Inking Behavior Protecting Adult Octopus bocki from Predation by Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) Hatchlings. Pacific Science, 2005, Vol.59(1), pp.69-72 Languages of the Solomon Islands Unclassified languages of Oceania {{Austronesian-lang-stub

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