'''Tayap''' (also spelled '''Taiap'''; called '''Gapun''' in earlier literature, after the name of the village in which it is spoken) is an [[endangered language|endangered]] Papuan language spoken by lessfewer thatthan 50 people in [[Gapun]] village of [[Marienberg Rural LLG]] in [[East Sepik Province]], [[Papua New Guinea]] ({{coord|-4.028746|144.50304|name=Gapun|type:city_region:PG}}, located just to the south of the [[Sepik River]] mouth near the coast).<ref name="Ethnologue22-PNG">{{cite web |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/country/PG/languages |title=Papua New Guinea languages |work=[[Ethnologue]]: Languages of the World |edition=22nd |editor1-last=Eberhard |editor1-first=David M. |editor2-last=Simons |editor2-first=Gary F. |editor3-last=Fennig |editor3-first=Charles D. |date=2019 |___location=Dallas |publisher=[[SIL International]] |access-date=2019-06-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190603020858/https://www.ethnologue.com/country/PG/languages |archive-date=2019-06-03 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="UN-PNG">{{cite web |url=https://data.humdata.org/dataset/village-coordinates-lookup |title=Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup |author=United Nations in Papua New Guinea |work=Humanitarian Data Exchange |version=1.31.9 |date=2018 |access-date=2019-06-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605192333/https://data.humdata.org/dataset/village-coordinates-lookup |archive-date=2019-06-05 |url-status=live }}</ref> It is being replaced by the national language and [[lingua franca]] [[Tok Pisin]].
