teop

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1. An Austronesian language spoken in northern Bougainville, Papua New Guinea.

   “1998 [Garland Publishing], 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.”

   “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 [Garland Publishing], 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.