Kiwai–Porome languages

Kiwaian
Geographic distribution	New Guinea
Linguistic classification	Trans–New Guinea ? Kiwaian
Glottolog	kiwa1251
Map: The Kiwaian languages of New Guinea   The Kiwaian languages   Other Trans–New Guinea languages   Other Papuan languages   Austronesian languages   Uninhabited

The Kiwaian languages form a branch of the Trans–New Guinea language family of New Guinea. They are a dialect cluster of half a dozen closely related languages. They are grammatically divergent from other Trans–New Guinea languages, and typically have singular, dual, trial, and plural pronouns.

Pronouns are,

None of these reflect proto-TNG pronouns. However, Kiwaian languages have basic TNG lexical words like body-part terms.

The Trans–New Guinea identity of Kiwaiian is supported by a relatively large number of basic lexical items. Ross (2005) tentatively linked Kiwaiian to the erstwhile language isolate Porome. However, the evidence is only two pronouns, and the connection has not been accepted by other researchers.