East Bird's Head–Sentani languages

East Bird's Head–Sentani
East Bird's Head–Sentani
Geographic; distribution	Papua
Linguistic classification	Extended West Papuan ? East Bird's Head–Sentani;
Subdivisions	East Bird's Head; Burmeso; Sentani;
Glottolog	None

The East Bird's Head–Sentani languages form a family of Papuan languages proposed by Malcolm Ross which combines the East Bird's Head and Sentani families along with the Burmeso language isolate. Sentani had been a branch of Stephen Wurm's proposal for Trans–New Guinea. It has lexical similarities with the Asmat–Kamoro languages, but Ross does not believe these demonstrate a genealogical relationship.

Ross also included the unclassified language Tause, but as a stimulus for investigation rather than as a serious proposal.

The East Bird's Head–Sentani languages, together with the West Papuan languages and the Yawa isolate, form part of a tentative proposal for an Extended West Papuan family. They are distinguished from the West Papuan family in having forms like ba or wa for the second-person singular ("thou") pronoun.

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