East Geelvink Bay Languages
The East Geelvink Bay or East Cenderawasih languages are a language family of a dozen Papuan languages along the eastern coast of Geelvink Bay in Indonesian Papua, which is also known as Sarera Bay or Cenderawasih.
The East Geelvink Bay languages are:
- Turunggare, Barapasi, Bauzi–Demisa, Anasi (Bapu), Burate, Kofei, Nisa, Sauri, Tefaro, Woria
Of these, only Turunggare, Barapasi, and Bauzi are known well enough to demonstrate a relationship, though they are all lexically similar (> 60%). The unclassified Kehu language, spoken between Turunggare and Burate, may turn out to be East Geelvink Bay as well.
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