Native to Papua New Guinea Native speakers (5,000 cited 1991) Glottolog teop1238 | Region Bougainville ISO 639-3 tio | |
Language family Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Western
Meso-Melanesian
Northwest Solomonic
Nehan–Bougainville
Saposa–Tinputz
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, 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
Teop language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA