East Papuan Language Phylum

East Papuan is a longstanding geographic and typological grouping, never demonstrated to be a genuine genealogical family, for the non-Austronesian languages of the Bismarck Archipelago, Bougainville and the Solomon Islands, a region otherwise dominated by Austronesian, or Oceanic, languages. This group holds every New Guinea and Pacific Language Families member whose sourced description places it in this East Papuan area, including the Bismarck Archipelago's Baining, Taulil-Butam and Bougainville families and the Solomon Islands' Central Solomons languages such as Lavukaleve, Touo, Savosavo and Bilua, gathering the region's scattered non-Austronesian survivors into one place rather than leaving each stand alone as a group of one.