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Taupota language

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Native to
  
Papua New Guinea

Native speakers
  
4,500 (2000–2001)

Region
  
Milne Bay Province

Language family
  
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic Papuan Tip Nuclear Papuan Tip North Mainland – D'Entrecasteaux Taupota languages Taupota

ISO 639-3
  
Variously: tpa – Taupota wag – Wa'ema wed – Wedau

Glottolog
  
taup1242  (Taupota) waem1237  (Wa'ema) weda1241  (Wedau)

Taupota is an Oceanic language of the Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. It appears to be a dialect chain, with southern varieties called Wa'ema and western Wedau.

References

Taupota language Wikipedia