The Trans-Fly languages are a small

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proposed by Timothy Usher, that are spoken in the region of the

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.The family is called 'East Trans-Fly' in Usher, an unfortunate synonym with what others call the Eastern Trans-Fly family, which constitutes one of its branches.

Languages

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Typology

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and Oriomo families, as well as in the Western Torres Strait language, but not in other languages of Southern New Guinea.

References

{{language families Languages of Papua New Guinea Language families Papuan languages