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Teop

  1. An Austronesian language spoken in northern Bougainville, Papua New Guinea.
    • 1998 , J. W. Love, Adrienne Kaeppler (editors), The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Australia and the Pacific Islands, 2013, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), unnumbered page,
      The population speaks Teop, a member of the Tinputz family of Austronesian languages. The population probably numbers less than five hundred.
    • 2012, Jessica Reinig, Serial and complex verb constructions in Teop, Isabelle Bril, Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre (editors), Complex Predicates in Oceanic Languages, Walter de Gruyter (Mouton de Gruyter), page 89,
      Verbal sentences in Teop, an Austronesian Oceanic language, have highly complex predicates.
    • 2019, Erik Svärd, “Chapter 9: Gender in New Guinea”, in Francesca Di Garbo, Bruno Olsson, Bernhard Wälchli, editors, Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity, Volume I, Language Science Press, page 250:
      Instead, Teop is analyzed as having two targets, viz., adjectives and numerals, which form a unit with the preceding article.
  2. A bay on the northeastern coast of Bougainville island.
  3. A small island adjacent to the bay.
    • 1976, South Pacific Bulletin, Volumes 26-29, South Pacific Commission, page 10,
      In the past, trading and exchange took place when peace was established between two tribal enemies, for example Tearaka and Teop islanders.
    • 1998 , J. W. Love, Adrienne Kaeppler (editors), The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Australia and the Pacific Islands, 2013, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), unnumbered page,
      The closest mainland village is Saba, in northeastern Bougainville. From an airstrip there to Teop takes about twenty minutes by outrigger.
  4. A people associated with the island and the language.

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