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,[1] 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.