South Bird's Head languages - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The South Bird's Head or South Doberai languages are a well-established 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 Papuan languages

Papuan languages

The Papuan languages are those languages of the western Pacific which are neither Austronesian nor Australian. The term does not presuppose a genetic relationship. The concept of Papuan peoples as distinct from Melanesians was first suggested and named by Sidney Herbert Ray in 1892.-The...

. They form part 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:**...

South Bird's Head (South Doberai) family
- South Bird's Head proper:
  - Weriagar (Kemberano, Barau), Arandai
    Arandai language
    Arandai is a dialect cluster of New Guinea.The treatment at Ethnologue appears to be inconsistent. ISO codes are assigned to two languages, Arandai and Kemberano, also known as Arandai. They are said to have 85% lexical similarity, which would make them dialects of one language...
    
    [dialect cluster]
  - Kokoda
    Kokoda language
    Kokoda is a Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula of West Papua. The three dialects—Kokoda proper, Kasuweri, and Tarof—are divergent enough to sometimes be considered separate languages....
    
    (Tarof, Kasuweri)
  - Kais (Kampong Baru), Puragi, Kaburi
- Inanwatan branch: Duriankere, Suabo
  Suabo language
  Suabo , also known as Inanwatan, is a Papuan language of West Papua. It also goes by the names Iagu and Mirabo....
  
  (Inanwatan)
- Konda–Yahadian branch: Konda, Yahadian

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