The Bosavi languages are a family

Language family

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term 'family' comes from the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a...

 of the Trans–New Guinea languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross

Malcolm Ross

Malcolm David Ross is a linguist and professor at the Australian National University. He has published work on Austronesian and Papuan languages, historical linguistics, and language contact.-External links:**...

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The languages, which are closely related, are Aimele (Kware), Kaluli

Kaluli language

Kaluli, or Bosavi, is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. Named dialects are Ologo, Kaluli, Walulu, Kugenesi, but differences are not significant....

, Beami

Beami language

Beami is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. Komofio is a dialect....

, Dibiyaso (Bainapi), Edolo, Kasua, Onobasulu, Sonia.

The nearly extinct Turuma language has recently been added, though it has more vocabulary in common with the unclassified Doso language

Doso language

Doso is an unclassified language of New Guinea. It is spoken near Kamula but does not appear to be related to it; not enough is known to tell if it may be related to other languages in the area....

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