Home›New Guinea and Pacific Language Families›Reconstructed Ancestor›ReconstructedBrowse ByReconstructedFactsReconstructedSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEstimated Living LanguagesWell-attested840 1ReconstructedFilter Results73 entriesMacro-areaAllAustronesian (Oceanic) Languages (54)Austronesian: Oceanic and Eastern Indonesia (20)Austronesian: Philippines, Borneo and Western Indonesia (34)East Papuan Language Phylum (1)Micronesian Languages (1)New Guinea and Pacific Language Isolates and Small Families (4)Polynesian Languages (6)Sepik Languages (1)Trans-New Guinea Languages (6)Parent Family (Classification Tree)AllAustronesian (2)Celebic languages (1)Central Philippine languages (2)Formosan (1)Malayo-Polynesian (2)Nuclear Polynesian languages (2)Western Malayo-Polynesian languages (1)Speaker Count BandAll24,600 to 795,000 (3)592 to 23,000 (1)798,400 to 3,238,000,000 (7)RegionAllAfrica (14)Asia (40)Australia (19)East Asia (2)Indonesia (4)Luzon (1)Maritime Southeast Asia (1)Melanesia (1)Micronesia (5)New Guinea (2)Papua New Guinea (2)Philippines (2)Polynesia (7)Southeast Asia (2)Taiwan (1)Western Province (1)Classification StatusAllEstablished (55)Number of LanguagesAll2 (3)16 to 1,408 (28)3 to 5 (5)6 to 15 (19)In GroupAllAustronesian: Oceanic and Eastern Indonesia (20)Austronesian: Philippines, Borneo and Western Indonesia (34)East Papuan Language Phylum (1)Micronesian Languages (1)New Guinea and Pacific Language Isolates and Small Families (4)Polynesian Languages (6)Sepik Languages (1)Trans-New Guinea Languages (6)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 23Papuan Tip languagesReconstructedPhilippineReconstructedPolynesianReconstructedRaja Ampat-South Halmahera languagesReconstructedSama-BajawReconstructedSambalic languagesReconstructedSarmi-Jayapura languagesReconstructedSirayaic languagesReconstructedSouth Halmahera languagesReconstructedSouth Halmahera-West New Guinea languagesReconstructedSouth Mindanao languagesReconstructedSouth Sulawesi languagesReconstructedSouth Vanuatu languagesReconstructedSoutheast Solomonic languagesReconstructedSouthern Oceanic languagesReconstructedSubanen languagesReconstructedTahitic languagesReconstructedTemotu languagesReconstructedTongic languagesReconstructedTorres-Banks languagesReconstructedTrans-New GuineaReconstructedTsouic languagesReconstructedWestern Oceanic languagesReconstructedShowing 51 to 73 of 73, page 2 of 2.← Previous12Sources1. 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.