Eastern Trans-Fly languages

Language family of New Guinea Eastern Trans-FlyOriomoGeographicdistributionOriomo Plateau, Papua New Guinea, Torres Strait Islands (Australia)Linguistic classificationTrans-Fly or independent language familyEastern Trans-FlyLanguage codesGlottologeast2503Map: The Eastern Trans-Fly languages of New Guinea The Eastern Trans-Fly languages Trans–New Guinea languages Other Papuan languages Austronesian languages Australian languages Uninhabited The Eastern Trans-Fly (or Oriomo) languages are a small independent family of Papuan languages spoken in the Oriomo Plateau to the west of the Fly River in New Guinea. Classification The languages constituted a branch of Stephen Wurm's 1970 Trans-Fly proposal, which he later incorporated into his 1975 expansion of the Trans–New Guinea family as part of a Trans-Fly – Bulaka River branch. They are retained as a family but removed from Trans–New Guinea in the classifications of Malcolm Ross and Timothy Usher.[who?] Wurm had determined that some of the languages he classified as Trans-Fly were not actually part of the Trans-New Guinea family but were instead heavily influenced by Trans-New Guinea languages. In 2005, Ross removed most of these