Kaure–Kapori Languages
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Kaure–Kapori is an obsolete language-classification proposal that linked two
language families A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term ''family'' is a metaphor borrowed from biology, with the tree model used in historical linguistics ana ...
, * Kapauri–Sause languages *
Kaure–Kosare languages The Kaure–Kosare or Nawa River languages are a small family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It form ...
Despite a history of linking these two families, there is no evidence for any particular connection.New Guinea World, Nawa River
/ref> Foley (2018) considers the evidence linking Kaure with Kapauri to be insufficient, and considers Kapauri to be an isolate.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kaure-Kapori languages Languages of Indonesia Proposed language families Papuan languages