The Finisterre-Huon languages are the largest family within the Trans-New Guinea languages, spoken across the Finisterre Range and Huon Peninsula of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea, in linguist Malcolm Ross's classification. The family divides into a Finisterre branch of roughly 30 languages across five subgroups and a Huon branch of 21 languages split into eastern and western divisions; its member languages share a small closed class of verbs taking cognate pronominal object prefixes, morphological evidence Kenneth McElhanon used in the late 1960s to establish the connection between the two branches.
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Finisterre-Huon is one of the largest and best-established branches of Trans-New Guinea, spoken in the Finisterre and Huon regions of Papua New Guinea.
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