Tetepare language

Tetepare language

Infobox Language
name=Tetepare
states=Solomon Islands
region=Tetepare Island, Western Province.
speakers=extinct
notice=nonotice
iso3=none

According to local oral history, the indigenous people of the now-uninhabited island of Tetepare spoke their own language, different to the other languages of the region. Published materials are insufficient to establish whether this language was an Austronesian language like most of the surrounding languages (Roviana, Marovo and the rest of the New Georgia subgroup), or a non-Austronesian language like neighboring Touo. Language maps sometimes show the Touo language extending to Tetepare Island as well, but this seems to be an accident.


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