TheEast Bird's Head–Sentani languages form afamily ofPapuan languages proposed byMalcolm Ross which combines theEast Bird's Head andSentani families along with theBurmesolanguage isolate. Sentani had been a branch ofStephen Wurm's proposal forTrans–New Guinea. It has lexical similarities with theAsmat–Kamoro languages, but Ross does not believe these demonstrate a genealogical relationship.

Ross also included the unclassified languageTause, but as a stimulus for investigation rather than as a serious proposal.

The East Bird's Head–Sentani languages, together with theWest Papuan languages and theYawa isolate, form part of a tentative proposal for anExtended West Papuan family. They are distinguished from the West Papuan family in having forms likeba orwa for the second-person singular ("thou")pronoun.

East Bird's Head–Sentani unifies two groups that Wurm placed at the family level, and one or two isolates.

Tause is best considered unclassified. Clouse (1997) classified it as aLakes Plain language, but its pronouns are not a good match. Ross included it here partially to spark further investigation.Saponi shares half of its basic lexical vocabulary withRasawa, but its pronouns instead resemble those of East Bird's Head.

These families share no common vocabulary, and are linked only by their pronouns. The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-families are:

Sentani

	Number
Person	Singular	Plural
		exclusive	inclusive
1st	*də	*me	*e
2nd	*wa	?
3rd	*nə	?

East Bird's Head

	Number
Person	Singular	Plural
		exclusive	inclusive
1st	*da, *di-	*meme, *me-	*mimi, *mi-
2nd	*ba, *bi-	*ia, *i-
3rd	*e, *-	*rua, *ri-

Burmeso and Tause correspond in their first and second singular pronouns:

• Burmesoda (de-), ba (be-)
• Tausedi, ba

Saponi corresponds in first person and second singular:

• Saponimamire "I, we",ba "thou".

• Languages of Western New Guinea
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• West Papuan languages

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