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Family membership references

• Fleischmann, Lillian and Turpeinen, Sinikka 1976
• Stephen A. Wurm 1975

Comments on family membership

Wurm's arguments Stephen A. Wurm 1975: 327-335 for a Trans New Guinea affiliation appear to be unreliable lexicostatistics and typological features. Likewise, the lexical and pronominal evidence for a Trans New Guinea affiliation is weak. See Fleischmann, Lillian and Turpeinen, Sinikka 1976 for additional lexical data on the internal coherence of the group.

Comments on subclassification

Stephen A. Wurm 1971: 146