Teop
Teop is an Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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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.
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Words in Teop
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | aba* | |
| name | he* | |
| eye | mata* | |
| ear | taina* | |
| nose | ihu* | |
| tooth | nihi* | |
| tongue | mea* | |
| hand | kuri* | |
| blood | revasin* | |
| bone | sino* | |
| skin | kapa* | |
| breast | huhu* | |
| liver | ate* | |
| water | ruene | |
| fire | sura* | |
| star | pitopito* | |
| stone | vasu* | |
| leaf | pakanaono* | |
| night | boni* | |
| dog | kahi* | |
| fish | ia* | |
| louse | usu* | |
| one | peha* | |
| two | buaku* | |
| I | ea* | |
| you | e* | |
| we | eara* | |
| drink | gaga* | |
| see | tara* | |
| hear | baitono* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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