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...

River, a river in the Papua province of Indonesia Tariku language, one of the Lakes Plain languages Tarikuiyeh, village in Kerman Province, Iran, also known...

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

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

equal to the Pirahã and Rotokas languages at 11 phonemes. The small consonant inventory is typical of Lakes Plain languages. Obokuitai does have some more...

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...

highly differs from Lakes Plain. For instance, unlike the nearby Lakes Plain languages, Abinomn is a non-tonal language.: 513  Languages adjacent to Abinomn...

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...