The Teberan–Pawaian languages, or Tua River languages, are a

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Papuan languages The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian and non- Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people. It is a strictly geogra ...

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

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. They are the

Teberan languages The Teberan languages are a well established family of Papuan languages that Stephen Wurm (1975) grouped with the Pawaia language as a branch of the Trans–New Guinea phylum. There are two Teberan languages, Dadibi and Folopa (Podopa). They ...

and the Wiru and Pawaia isolates.Usher, Timothy. 2020
Tua River
New Guinea World. Teberan and Pawaian had previously been linked, along with the

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, in Wurm's 1975 Trans-

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branch of Trans–New Guinea.

References

External links

* Timothy Usher, New Guinea World
Proto–Tua River
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