Finisterre–Huon languages

The Finisterre–Huon languages comprise the largest family within the Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG) in the classification of Malcolm Ross. They were part of the original TNG proposal, and William A. Foley considers their TNG identity to be established. The languages share a small closed class of verbs taking pronominal object prefixes some of which are cognate (Suter 2012), strong morphological evidence that they are related.

Finisterre–Huon
Geographic
distribution		Finisterre Range and Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classificationTrans–New Guinea
  • Morobe – Eastern Highlands
    • Finisterre–Huon
Subdivisions
Glottologfini1244
Map: The Finisterre–Huon languages of New Guinea
  The Finisterre–Huon languages
  Other Trans–New Guinea languages
  Other Papuan languages
  Austronesian languages
  Uninhabited
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