The sixty Papuan Tip languages form a branch of the Western Oceanic languages. All Papuan Tip languages, except for Nimoa, Sudest, and the Kilivila languages (all spoken on islands off the coast of mainland Papua New Guinea), have SOV word order due to influences from nearby Papuan languages (Lynch, Ross, & Crowley 2002:104). Universally, this is considered to be a typologically unusual change.
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