East Lakes Plain languages

Lakes Plain
Geographic distribution	New Guinea
Linguistic classification	Possibly one of the world's primary language families
Subdivisions	Tariku East Lakes Plain Rasawa–Saponi Awera
Glottolog	lake1255

The Lakes Plain languages are a small family of Papuan languages. They were tentatively grouped by Stephen Wurm with the Tor languages in his Trans–New Guinea proposal. Clouse (1997) found no evidence of a connection to the Tor languages and grouped them with the Geelvink Bay languages. Malcolm Ross classifies the languages as an independent family.

Wurm's family-level nodes are bold in the cladogram below:

Awera

Rasawa–Saponi: Rasawa, ?? Saponi

East Lakes Plain: Foau, Taworta (Diebroud)

Turu: Edopi–Iau–Foi–Turu [a dialect cluster]

Duvle

West Tariku: Fayu, Kirikiri (but not Tause)

Sikaritai–Eritai–Obokuitai–Biritai–Kaiy, Kwerisa

Papasena

Doutai, Waritai

The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Tariku are,

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