Sop language

Sop
Sob
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMadang Province
Native speakers
2,300 (2003)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3urw
Glottologsopp1247
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Sop (also Sob, Usino) is a Rai Coast language spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea by approximately 2,500 people.

The Sob language has been labelled under several different names. Among the names are Usino, Usina, Sopu, and Igoi. Usino is the name of one of the villages and the name used for the government station. The speakers of this language do not recognize the name Usino as a name for their language, but use the endonym Sob.

  1. ^ Sop at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)