Greater Binanderean languages
| Greater Binanderean | |
|---|---|
| Guhu-Oro | |
| Geographic distribution | Oro Province and parts of southern Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Binanderean–Goilalan
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| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | bina1276 |
Map: The Greater Binanderean languages of New Guinea
Greater Binanderean languages
Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited | |
The Greater Binanderean or Guhu-Oro languages are a language family spoken along the northeast coast of the Papuan Peninsula – the "Bird's Tail" of New Guinea – and appear to be a recent expansion from the north. They were classified as a branch of the Trans–New Guinea languages by Stephen Wurm (1975) and Malcolm Ross (2005), but removed (along with the related Goilalan languages) by Timothy Usher (2020). The Binandere family proper is transparently valid; Ross connected it to the Guhu-Semane isolate based on pronominal evidence, and this has been confirmed by Smallhorn (2011). Proto-Binanderean (which excludes Guhu-Samane) has been reconstructed in Smallhorn (2011).