Arop

Arop, recorded as Arop-Lokep or Arop-Lukep, is an Oceanic Austronesian language spoken on four islands of the Siassi chain in the Vitiaz Strait, between New Britain and the New Guinea mainland. It belongs to the Ngero, or Siassi, group of the Ngero–Vitiaz linkage, whose islanders formed the hub of a pre-colonial trading network across the strait.