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East New Guinea Highlands languages

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East New Guinea Highlands is a 1960 proposal by the linguist Stephen Wurm for a family of Papuan languages spoken in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, which he incorporated into his 1975 expansion of the Trans-New Guinea family.

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1. East New Guinea Highlands languages (Wikipedia)
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East New Guinea Highlands is a 1960 proposal by Stephen Wurm for a family of Papuan languages spoken in Papua New Guinea that formed part of his 1975 expansion of Trans-New Guinea.
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