Tause

Tause, also known as Doa or Darha, is a Papuan language spoken by around 500 people in Indonesia's Papua province, most of them in the village of Derapos. The Tause people had no sustained contact with the outside world until 1982, so the language was documented only recently and remains poorly known. It is sometimes classified with the Lakes Plain languages, though the evidence for that grouping is thin, and more recent analysis treats it instead as the most divergent member of the West Lakes Plain languages rather than confidently placing it within any established family.