Kaure–Kosare languages

The Kaure–Kosare or Nawa River languages are a small family spoken along the Nawa River in West Papua, near the northern border with Papua New Guinea. The languages are Kaure and Kosare.

Classification

and Kosare are clearly related. There is a history of classifying them with the Kapori–Sause languages. However, Kapori and Sause show no particular connection to the Kaure languages, and may be closer to Kwerba.
Foley considers a connection with Trans-New Guinea to be promising, but tentatively leaves Kaure-Kosare out as an independent language family pending further evidence.

Usher reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows:
Coda consonants are stop *C and nasal *N.
Diphthongs are *ɛi, *ɛu, *ai *au.

Usher reconstructs the pronouns as:

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