The East Kutubuan languages are a small family of Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG) in the classification of Malcolm Ross. There are just two languages,
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Geographic distribution | New Guinea |
Linguistic classification | Papuan Gulf ?
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Glottolog | east2499 |
![]() Map: The East Kutubuan languages of New Guinea
The East Kutubuan languages
Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited |
which are not close to the West Kutubuan languages. These were linked in a "Kutubuan" family by Franklin and Voorhoeve in 1973, but there is some debate over whether they are closer to each other than to other Kikorian languages. Although East Kutubuan has proto-TNG vocabulary, Ross considers its inclusion in TNG to be questionable.
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