Home›New Guinea and Pacific Language Families›Region›Papua New GuineaBrowse ByPapua New GuineaRegion names where a language family is spoken today, which can be far wider than where it began. Wikipedia notes several Indo-European languages "have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across Africa, Americas, Oceania and North Asia." This dimension shows the present-day reach of a family rather than only its point of origin.FactsPapua New GuineaSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEstimated Living LanguagesWell-attested840 1Papua New GuineaFilter Results63 entriesMacro-areaAllAustronesian (Oceanic) Languages (1)Austronesian: Oceanic and Eastern Indonesia (1)East Papuan Language Phylum (1)New Guinea and Pacific Language Isolates and Small Families (13)Polynesian Languages (1)Ramu Languages (2)Sepik Languages (10)Torricelli Languages (6)Trans-New Guinea Languages (29)Parent Family (Classification Tree)AllNuclear Polynesian languages (1)Trans-New Guinea (3)Speaker Count BandAll1 to 570 (1)24,600 to 795,000 (1)592 to 23,000 (1)798,400 to 3,238,000,000 (1)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (2)Classification StatusAllEstablished (31)Number of LanguagesAll1 (1)2 (5)16 to 1,408 (4)3 to 5 (11)6 to 15 (11)In GroupAllAustronesian: Oceanic and Eastern Indonesia (1)East Papuan Language Phylum (1)New Guinea and Pacific Language Isolates and Small Families (13)Polynesian Languages (1)Ramu Languages (2)Sepik Languages (10)Torricelli Languages (6)Trans-New Guinea Languages (29)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 13Teberan-Pawaian languagesPapua New GuineaTrans-New GuineaPapua New GuineaTurama-Kikorian languagesPapua New GuineaUpper Sepik languagesPapua New GuineaUpper YuatPapua New GuineaUrim languagesPapua New GuineaWalio languagesPapua New GuineaWapei languagesPapua New GuineaWapei-Palei languagesPapua New GuineaWestern Skou languagesPapua New GuineaYareban languagesPapua New GuineaYele-West New Britain languagesPapua New GuineaYuatPapua New GuineaShowing 51 to 63 of 63, 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.