Taiap
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| Taiap | |
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| Spoken in: | Papua New Guinea |
| Region: | Gapun village |
| Total speakers: | Under 100. |
| Ranking: | Not in top 100 |
| Genetic classification: | Unknown. |
| Official status | |
| Official language of: | -- |
| Regulated by: | -- |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | ??? |
| ISO 639-2(B) | ??? |
| ISO 639-2(T) | ??? |
| SIL | GPN |
Taiap is a endangered language spoken in the Gapun village in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. It is a language isolate. Little is known about its history, it was first "discovered" by a German missionary in 1938 and wasn't studied by linguists until the 1970s due to the inaccessiblity of the village where it was spoken. The family of the language is unknown, it may belong to the Sepik family but if so its structure and vocabulary are unique within that family. It is only spoken in Gapun village in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. It is Endangered.
External links
- Ethnologue report for Language (http://www.ethnologue.org/show_language.asp?code=GPN)