East Pauwasi languages

The East Pauwasi languages are a family of Papuan languages spoken in north-central New Guinea, on both sides of the Indonesia-Papua New Guinea border. They may either form part of a larger Pauwasi language family along with the Pauwasi languages">Pauwasi language">Pauwasi languages, or they could form an independent language family.

Languages

According to Timothy Usher, the East Pauwasi languages, which seem to form a dialect chain, are:
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Zorop
Emem–Karkar
*Emem
**North Emem
**South Emem
*Karkar

Usher also identified the Karkar language as Pauwasi.

Lexical reconstruction

Some lexical reconstructions of Proto-East Pauwasi by Usher are:

Vocabulary comparison

The following basic vocabulary words are from Voorhoeve, as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database.
The words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate or not.