Home›African Language Families›In Group›Trans-New Guinea LanguagesGroupTrans-New Guinea LanguagesThe Trans-New Guinea proposal is the largest single grouping of Papuan languages, uniting several hundred languages across the highlands and much of the interior of the island of New Guinea under a single very large, still debated family first expanded to its broadest scope by Stephen Wurm in the 1960s and 1970s and narrowed substantially by later scholars including Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley and Harald Hammarstrom. This group holds every New Guinea and Pacific Language Families member whose sourced description identifies it as Trans-New Guinea, Nuclear Trans New Guinea or a named family within the wider proposal, including the Madang, Finisterre-Huon, Kainantu-Goroka, Engan, Angan, Eleman, Goilalan and Teberan families and their own recognized branches, gathering the family's enormous internal diversity into one place rather than minting a group of one or two for each small constituent family.FactsTrans-New Guinea LanguagesSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonPrimary RegionWell-attestedNew Guinea 1Trans-New Guinea LanguagesFilter Results88 entriesParent Family (Classification Tree)AllAngan (1)Bosavi languages (1)Chimbu-Wahgi (1)Engan (1)Finisterre-Huon languages (1)Goilalan (1)Trans-New Guinea (7)Yareban languages (1)RegionAllArafundi River, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea (1)Around Kerema Bay, Papua New Guinea (1)Baliem Valley, Highland Papua, Indonesia (1)Etna Bay, Kaimana Regency, West Papua province, Indonesia. (1)Finisterre Range, New Guinea (1)Fly River Delta area, Papua New Guinea (1)Highlands of Papua New Guinea (1)Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea (1)Madang and Morobe Provinces, Papua New Guinea (1)North coast of Papua province, Indonesia, Sarmi Regency (1)Northern Papua New Guinea (1)Oriomo Plateau, west of the Fly River, Papua New Guinea (1)Papua Province, Indonesia (1)South-central New Guinea, in the area of the Fly River. (1)Wharton Range, in the "Bird's Tail" of New Guinea (1)Speaker Count BandAll20.000000 (1)1800.000000 (1)71940.000000 (1)80000.000000 (2)3000000.000000 (1)Macro-areaAllTrans-New Guinea Languages (88)BrowseCompareSelect all 88Alor-Pantar languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesAnganNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families1 linkAnimNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesArafundi languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesAsmat-Kamrau languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesAsmat-Mombum languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesAwyu languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesAwyu-Ok languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesBaliem Valley languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesBayono-Awbono languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesBerau Gulf languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesBinanderean-Goilalan languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesBoazi languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesBogia LanguagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesBorderNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesBosavi languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families1 linkBrahman languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesCentral and South New Guinea languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesCentral West New Guinea languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesChimbu-WahgiNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families1 linkDagan languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesDani-Kwerba languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesDemNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesDuna-Pogaya languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesEast Bird's Head-Sentani languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesEast Kutubuan languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesEast New Guinea Highlands languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesEastern Highlands-Kratke Range languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesEastern Trans-FlyNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesElemanNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesEnganNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families1 linkFinisterre languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesFinisterre-Huon languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families1 linkGoilalanNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families1 linkGrass languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesGreater Binanderean languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesHanseman languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesHuon languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesIsirawaNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesKainantu-Goroka languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesKayagar languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesKiwaianNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesKoiarian languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesKolopom languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesKunimaipan languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesKutubuan languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesKwaleanNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesLower Ramu languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesMabuso languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesMadangNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesMadang-Upper Yuat languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesMailuan languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesMairasiNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesManubaran languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesMarind-Yaqai languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesMarkham languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesMek languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families1 linkMiddle Ramu languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesMindjim languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesMonumbo languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesMor language (Papuan)New Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesMororiNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesNimboran languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesNorthern Adelbert languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesNuclear Trans New GuineaNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesOirata-Makasae languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesPaniai Lakes languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesPawaiaNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesPiawiNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesPorapora languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesRamuNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesSchouten languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesSenagiNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesSogeram languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesSouth Bird's HeadNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesTeberanNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesTeberan-Pawaian languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesTofanmaNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesTorricelliNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesTrans-New GuineaNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families8 linksTurama-Kikorian languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesUpper YuatNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesUskuNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesWest Papuan Highlands languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesWest Trans-New Guinea languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesWiruNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesYaganon languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesYareban languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families1 linkSources1. Wikipedia: Trans-New Guinea Languagestier 2Wikimedia FoundationLead section, first sentenceQuote, Lead section, first sentenceTrans-New Guinea (TNG) is an extensive family of Papuan languages spoken on the island of New Guinea and neighboring islands, a region corresponding to the country Papua New Guinea as well as parts of Indonesia.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.