| Teberan–Pawaian | |
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| Tua River | |
| Geographic distribution | Tua River,Papua New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Papuan Gulf?
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| Glottolog | None |
TheTeberan–Pawaian languages, orTua River languages, are afamily ofPapuan languages, established by Timothy Usher, that are spoken in the region of theTua River. They are theTeberan languages and theWiru andPawaia isolates.[1]Teberan and Pawaian had previously been linked, along with theEast Kutubuan languages, in Wurm's 1975 Trans-Murray branch of Trans–New Guinea.
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| Trans–New Guinea subgroups |
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| EasternNusantara families and isolates | |||||||||||
| Bird's Head Peninsula families and isolates | |||||||||||
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| Sepik–Ramu basin families and isolates |
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| Rossel Island isolate | |||||||||||
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