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Taiap (also called Gapun, after the name of the village where it is spoken) is an endangered language isolate spoken by around
a hundred people in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. It is being replaced by the national language and lingua
franca Tok Pisin. The first European to come across Taiap was a German missionary in 1938. The language was not studied by
linguists until the 1970s due to the inaccessibility of the region. Although Donald Laycock (1973) placed Taiap in his Sepik
Ramu language family, its structure and vocabulary would be unique for that family, and Ross (2005) found no evidence that
it is related to any language of New Guinea. The current extent of Taiap is nearly coincident with what had been an offshore
island 6000 years ago, consistent with the idea that Taiap is a language isolate. |
Names (more)[br] Taiapeg[en] Taiap language [fr] Taiap [hr] Taiap jezik [ru] Таиап |
Language type : Living
Technical notes
This page is providing structured data for the language Taiap. |
ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : gpnLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/gpnhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:gpn More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: gpnFreebase ISO 639-3 : gpn GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |