North New Guinea languages

North New Guinea
Geographic distribution:	Northern New Guinea
Linguistic classification:	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic North New Guinea
Subdivisions:	? Sarmi–Jayapura family Schouten linkage Huon Gulf family Ngero–Vitiaz linkage
Glottolog:	nort3206

The North New Guinea languages of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia form a possible linkage of Western Oceanic languages.

According to Lynch, Ross, & Crowley (2002), the structure of the family is as follows:

The center of dispersal was evidently near the Vitiaz Strait between New Britain and the New Guinea mainland.

The inclusion of Sarmi and Jayapura Bay is uncertain, and it may constitute a separate branch of Western Oceanic.

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