Teop language

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,^[2] 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.

Teop
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Bougainville
Native speakers	(5,000 cited 1991)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Meso-Melanesian Northwest Solomonic Nehan–Bougainville Saposa–Tinputz Teop
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tio
Glottolog	teop1238
ELP	Teop