Teop

释义与例句

name
  1. 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.

  2. 2.

    A bay on the northeastern coast of Bougainville island.

  3. 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. 4.

    A people associated with the island and the language.