Teop

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proper noun

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

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Meanings

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

    Instead, Teop is analyzed as having two targets, viz., adjectives and numerals, which form a unit with the preceding article.

    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
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    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.

  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.

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    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.

Translations

French teop
  • teopAustronesian language
Portuguese teop
  • teopAustronesian language
Swedish teop
  • teopAustronesian language

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

poettopepotePetopeot
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APA

Teop. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Teop

MLA

“Teop.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Teop. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Teop,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Teop.

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