Trans-Fly–Bulaka River languages

The Trans-Fly–Bulaka River aka South-Central Papuan languages form a hypothetical family of Papuan languages. They include many of the languages west of the Fly River in southern Papua New Guinea into southern Indonesian West Papua, plus a pair of languages on the Bulaka River a hundred km further west.

"South-Central Papuan languages" redirects here. For the proposed branch of the Trans–New Guinea family, see Central and South New Guinea languages.
Trans-Fly–Bulaka River
South-Central Papuan
(obsolete)
Geographic
distribution		New Guinea
Linguistic classificationProposed language family
Subdivisions
GlottologNone
Map: The Trans-Fly–Bulaka River languages of New Guinea
  The Trans-Fly–Bulaka River languages
  Trans–New Guinea languages
  Other Papuan languages
  Austronesian languages
  Australian languages
  Uninhabited

The family was posited by Stephen Wurm as a branch of his 1975 Trans–New Guinea proposal. Wurm thought it likely that many of these languages would prove to not actually belong to Trans–New Guinea, but rather to have been heavily influenced by Trans–New Guinea languages. Malcolm Ross (2005) concurred, and removed most of them.

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