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Arai–Samaia languages

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Proposed language family of New Guinea
Arai–Samaia
Arai and Samaia Rivers
Geographic
distribution		New Guinea
Subdivisions
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Arai–Samaia is a language family of New Guinea, proposed by Timothy Usher, that includes the Arai (Left May) and Samaia (Amto–Musan) languages and the Pyu isolate.

References

  1. NewGuineaWorld, Arai and Samaia Rivers

Further reading

Papuan language families
(Palmer 2018 classification)
Trans-New Guinea
subgroups
Central Papua, Indonesia
Southeast Papua, Indonesia
Southwest Papua New Guinea
Central Papua New Guinea
Papuan Peninsula
Eastern Nusantara
families and isolates
Bird's Head Peninsula
families and isolates
Northern Western New Guinea
families and isolates
Central Western New Guinea
families and isolates
Sepik-Ramu basin
families and isolates
Torricelli subgroups
Sepik subgroups
Ramu subgroups
Gulf of Papua and southern New Guinea
families and isolates
Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Islands
families and isolates
Rossel Island
isolate
Proposed groupings
Proto-language
Primary language families
Africa
Isolates
Eurasia
(Europe
and Asia)
Isolates
New Guinea
and the Pacific
Isolates
Australia
Isolates
North
America
Isolates
Mesoamerica
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South
America
Isolates
(extant in 2000)
Sign
languages
Isolates
See also
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  • Families in italics have no living members.
  • Families with more than 30 languages are in bold.


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