Finisterre languages

The Finisterre languages are a language family spoken in the Finisterre Range of Papua New Guinea, classified within the original Trans-New Guinea proposal, whose membership in that larger family William A. Foley considers established. They share with the neighboring Huon languages a small closed class of verbs taking pronominal object prefixes, some of them cognate across both families, which Suter identified in 2012 as strong morphological evidence that the two families are related. The most populous Finisterre languages are Wantoat, Rawa and Yopno, each with about 10,000 speakers, and Iyo, with roughly half that number.