| Kaure–Kapori | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification: | Trans–New Guinea ?
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The Kaure–Kapori languages are a family proposed by Malcolm Ross as part of his classification of the Trans–New Guinea languages. It consists of the well established Kaure family and the Kapori isolate.
Ross's classification is based on personal pronouns. The inclusion of Kaure–Kipori in Trans–New Guinea, where Stephen Wurm (1975) had placed Kaure proper, is tentative, as no pronouns can be reconstructed from the available data, and it is not accepted in Ethnologue (2009).