Teop language

Teop
Teop
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Bougainville
Native speakers	(5,000 cited 1991)
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

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.