Teop language
{{Short description|Oceanic language spoken on Bougainville}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Teop
|states=Papua New Guinea
|region=Bougainville
|speakers=5,000
|date=1991
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Austronesian
|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
|fam3=Oceanic
|fam4=Western
|fam5=Meso-Melanesian
|fam6=Northwest Solomonic
|fam7=Nehan–Bougainville
|fam8=Saposa–Tinputz
|iso3=tio
|glotto=teop1238
|glottorefname=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,{{cite web|url=http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/teop|title=DOBES: Documentation of Endangered Languages (Dokumentation Bedrohte Sprachen)|accessdate=21 January 2012}} 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
- [http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/media/1147/teop_sketch_grammar_may07.pdf The Teop sketch grammar]
- Paradisec has two collections of Arthur Cappell's materials ([http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/AC1 AC1], [http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/AC2 AC2]) that include Peop language materials and one collection from Lynne McDonald ([http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/NC1 NC1])
- [https://doreco.huma-num.fr/languages/teop1238 Teop DoReCo corpus] compiled by Ulrike Mosel. Audio recordings of narrative texts with transcriptions time-aligned at the phone level, translations, and time-aligned morphological annotations.
{{Meso-Melanesian languages}}
{{Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages}}
{{Languages of Papua New Guinea}}
Category:Northwest Solomonic languages
Category:Languages of Papua New Guinea
Category:Languages of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville
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