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East Bird's Head-Sentani languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

The East Bird's Head-Sentani languages form a family of Papuan languages proposed by Malcolm Ross, combining the East Bird's Head and Sentani families along with the Burmeso language isolate. Sentani had been a branch of Stephen Wurm's proposal for Trans-New Guinea; the family has lexical similarities with the Asmat-Kamoro languages, but Ross does not believe these demonstrate a genealogical relationship.

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