Border languages (New Guinea)

The Border or Upper Tami languages are an independent family of Papuan languages in Malcolm Ross's version of the Trans–New Guinea proposal.

Border
Tami River – Bewani Range
Geographic
distribution		New Guinea
Linguistic classificationNorthwest Papuan?
  • Border
Subdivisions
  • Morwap
  • Senggi
  • Upper Tami
  • Bewani Range
Glottologbord1247

Unlike the neighboring Sepik languages and many other Papuan language families of northern New Guinea, Border languages do not have grammatical gender or number (dual and plural forms).

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