Teop

Proper noun

Teop

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...
   • Verbal sentences in Teop, an Austronesian Oceanic language, have highly complex predicates.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...
2. A bay on the northeastern coast of Bougainville island.
3. A small island adjacent to the bay.
   • In the past, trading and exchange took place when peace was established between two tribal enemies, for example Tearaka and Teop islanders.1976, South Pacific Bulletin, Volumes 26-29, South Pacific Commission, page 10
   • 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...
4. A people associated with the island and the language.