South Bird's Head languages

South Bird's Head
South Doberai
Geographic distribution	West Irian Jaya
Linguistic classification	Trans–New Guinea South Bird's Head
Subdivisions	South Bird's Head proper Inanwatan Konda–Yahadian
Glottolog	None sout1516  (South Bird's Head proper) kond1302  (Konda–Yahadian) inan1242  (Inanwatan)
Map: The South Bird's Head languages of New Guinea   The South Bird's Head languages   Other Trans–New Guinea languages   Other Papuan languages   Austronesian languages   Uninhabited

The South Bird's Head or South Doberai languages are three families of Papuan languages. They form part of the Trans–New Guinea languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross.

Ross reconstructs pronouns *na 1sg and *a 2sg, but otherwise the three families have little in common and are not obviously related:

The pronouns are:

3sg *ni is reconstructable for SBH proper. There appears to be both a plural vowel change from *a to *i, as in proto-TNG, and a plural suffix *-ri.