The Demta-Sentani languages form a small language family of coastal Indonesian Papua, spoken near the border with Papua New Guinea.
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Proto-Language StatusNo proto-Demta-Sentani language has been reconstructed. Pawley and Hammarstrom (2018) note lexical resemblances between the Sentani languages and proto-Trans-New Guinea but do not treat Demta-Sentani as a Trans-New Guinea branch. 1 Pawley and Hammarstrom (2018) classify Sentani as its own separate language family rather than as part of Trans-New Guinea, despite the noted lexical resemblances. RegionLake Sentani region, coastal Indonesian Papua near the Papua New Guinea border. 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: Demta-Sentani languages
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form a language family of coastal Indonesian Papua near the Papua New Guinea border
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though they classify Sentani as a separate language family rather than as part of Trans-New Guinea
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