teop
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An Austronesian language spoken in northern Bougainville, Papua New Guinea.
name
A bay on the northeastern coast of Bougainville island.
name
A people associated with the island and the language.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."