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 wasn't studied by linguists until the
1970s due to the inaccessiblity 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 (
map), consistent with the idea that Taiap is a language isolate.
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Taiap is a Gapun language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
The language is: Taiap
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