The Lakes Plain languages are a family of Papuan languages, spoken in the Lakes Plain of Indonesian New Guinea. They are notable for being heavily tonal...

Keuw language (currently classified as a language isolate) may also possibly share a deep relationship with the Lakes Plain languages. Like the Lakes Plain...

reclassification of the Lakes Plain languages of Irian Jaya". Papers in Papuan Linguistics. 2: 133–236. Voorhoeve, Clemens L. (1975). Languages of Irian Jaya:...

languages, including the vernaculars of the Asmat and Dani people. Mairasi languages (4) East Cenderawasih (Geelvink Bay) languages (10) Lakes Plain languages...

outside world in 1982. The Tause language has been widely reported to be related to the neighboring Lakes Plain languages; however, this conclusion is based...

is not clear. Iau is the most tonally complex Lakes Plain language. Unlike other Lakes Plain languages which can be disyllabic or trisyllabic, Iau word...

is less complex than that of Tor-Kwerba languages, but is more complex than that of the Lakes Plain languages. The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto–East...

world, equal to the Pirahã and Rotokas languages. The small consonant inventory is typical of Lakes Plain languages. Obokuitai does have some more sounds...

villages. Fayu has a relatively minimal phonological index, typical of Lakes Plain languages. It has an extensive system of allomorphy. Fayu at Ethnologue (18th...

Donohue (2017), with a very small consonant inventory typical of the Lakes Plain languages. In an earlier paper co-authored by Donohue, the approximants /j...