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Indo-Pacific languages

The Indo-Pacific super-family groups together several language families, mainly spoken in Papua New Guinea and nearby regions, which are not Austronesian, together with the native languages of Tasmania and the Andaman Islands. The language families within this super-family are:

This super-family is outlined in Merritt Ruhlen's A Guide to World's languages, but is not widely accepted.

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