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Tetepare language

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Tetepare
Native toSolomon Islands
RegionTetepare Island, Western Province.
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
GlottologNone

Tetepare is an extinct language of Tetepare Island. According to local oral history, the indigenous people of the now-uninhabited island of Tetepare spoke their own language, different from the other languages of the region.

Classification

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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, but this seems to be an accident.

See also

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References

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  • Read, John; Moseby, Vertebrates of Tetepare Island, Solomon Islands 1. Katherine Pacific Science, Jan 2006, Vol.60(1), pp. 69–79
  • Caldwell, Roy L, An Observation of Inking Behavior Protecting Adult Octopus bocki from Predation by Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) Hatchlings. Pacific Science, 2005, Vol.59(1), pp. 69–72