The Senu River languages are a small language family spoken in the Senu River watershed of Papua New Guinea. The family consists of at least the Kwomtari languages, Kwomtari and Nai, along with several additional languages more distantly related to them.
Facts
Disputed
Proto-Language StatusNo proto-language reconstruction has been published. Family membership itself has shifted across classifications (Baron 1983, Usher 2020), and Laycock's earlier Kwomtari-Fas grouping is now considered spurious. 1 RegionSenu River watershed, Papua New Guinea 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: Senu River Languages
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The Senu River languages are a small language family spoken in the Senu River watershed of Papua New Guinea.
Confusion from Laycock section
There has been confusion over the membership of the Kwomtari family, apparently due to a misalignment in the publication (Loving & Bass 1964) of the data used for the initial classification.
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