Taupota language

Taupota
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Milne Bay Province
Native speakers	4,500 (2000–2001)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic Papuan Tip Nuclear Papuan Tip North Mainland – D'Entrecasteaux Taupota languages Taupota
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: tpa – Taupota wag – Wa'ema wed – Wedau
Glottolog	taup1242  (Taupota)[2] waem1237  (Wa'ema)[3] weda1241  (Wedau)[4]

Taupota is an Oceanic language of the Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. It appears to be a dialect chain, with southern varieties called Wa'ema and western Wedau.

References

1. Taupota at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Wa'ema at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Wedau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Taupota". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Wa'ema". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
4. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Wedau". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.