Home›New Guinea and Pacific Language Families›Classification Status›ProposedBrowse ByProposedFactsProposedSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEstimated Living LanguagesWell-attested840 1ProposedFilter Results28 entriesMacro-areaAllAustronesian (Oceanic) Languages (11)Austronesian: Oceanic and Eastern Indonesia (3)Austronesian: Philippines, Borneo and Western Indonesia (8)East Papuan Language Phylum (3)New Guinea and Pacific Language Isolates and Small Families (4)Sepik Languages (1)Trans-New Guinea Languages (7)West Papuan Language Phylum (2)Parent Family (Classification Tree)AllMalayo-Polynesian (3)Speaker Count BandAll24,600 to 795,000 (1)798,400 to 3,238,000,000 (1)RegionAllAfrica (6)Asia (6)Australia (6)Bird's Head Peninsula (1)East Asia (3)Indonesia (7)New Guinea (3)Papua New Guinea (5)Philippines (2)Southeast Asia (3)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (3)In GroupAllAustronesian: Oceanic and Eastern Indonesia (3)Austronesian: Philippines, Borneo and Western Indonesia (8)East Papuan Language Phylum (3)New Guinea and Pacific Language Isolates and Small Families (4)Sepik Languages (1)Trans-New Guinea Languages (7)West Papuan Language Phylum (2)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 28Arai-Samaia languagesProposedAustronesian-Ongan languagesProposedAustro-TaiProposedBinanderean-Goilalan languagesProposedCentral and South New Guinea languagesProposedCentral Malayo-Polynesian languagesProposedCentral Maluku languagesProposedCentral SolomonProposedCentral-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languagesProposedDani-Kwerba languagesProposedDuna-Pogaya languagesProposedEast Bird's Head-Sentani languagesProposedEast New Britain languagesProposedEast New Guinea Highlands languagesProposedMolbog-Bonggi languagesProposedNorthern Formosan languagesProposedNorthern Philippine languagesProposedNorthwest Papuan languagesProposedPapuan GulfProposedPhilippineProposedRamu-Lower Sepik languagesProposedSouthern Oceanic languagesProposedTrans-FlyProposedWest Papuan languagesProposedWest Pauwasi languagesProposedWest Trans-New Guinea languagesProposedWestern Malayo-Polynesian languagesProposedYele-West New Britain languagesProposedSources1. Wikipedia: Languages Of Papua New GuineaWikimedia FoundationLead section (Papua New Guinea, the macroarea's linguistic core)Quote, Lead section (Papua New Guinea, the macroarea's linguistic core)Ethnologue, among other sources, state that there are 840 living languages spoken in the country, although estimates vary due to the distinction between a language and a dialect.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.