Torricelli Languages

The Torricelli languages are a family of about fifty languages spoken by roughly eighty thousand people across the Torricelli Range and the coast of northern Papua New Guinea's East Sepik, Sandaun and Madang provinces, first classified by the linguist Donald Laycock in 1975 into eight primary divisions including Arapesh, the family's largest and best known branch, along with Urim, Maimai, Wapei, Palei, One, Monumbo and Tayap-Marienberg. This group holds every New Guinea and Pacific Language Families member whose sourced description identifies it as Torricelli or as one of these named branches, a family not clearly related to any other Papuan family despite decades of comparative work.