Inland Gulf languages

Inland Gulf
Geographic distribution:	New Guinea
Linguistic classification:	Trans–New Guinea Inland Gulf
Subdivisions:	Ipiko Minanibai

The Inland Gulf languages are a family of Trans–New Guinea languages in the classifications of Stephen Wurm (1975) and Malcolm Ross (2005). The unity of the languages was established by K. Franklin in 1969. Although the family as a whole is clearly valid, Ipiko is quite distinct from the other languages.

Inland Gulf family
- Ipiko language
- Minanibai branch: Minanibai, Tao, Mubami, Karami, Mahigi

References

Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide, Jack Golson, eds. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.