East Kutubuan languages explained

East Kutubuan
Also Known As:East Kutubu
Region:New Guinea
Familycolor:Papuan
Fam1:Papuan Gulf ?
Fam2:Kikorian
Fam3:Kutubuan
Child1:Fiwaga
Child2:Foi
Glotto:east2499
Glottorefname:East Kutubu
Map:East Kutubuan languages.svg
Mapcaption:Map: The East Kutubuan languages of New Guinea

The East Kutubuan languages are a small family of Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG) in the classification of Malcolm Ross. There are just two languages,

Fiwaga and Foi, which are not close to the West Kutubuan languages. These were linked in a "Kutubuan" family by Franklin and Voorhoeve in 1973, but there is some debate over whether they are closer to each other than to other Kikorian languages. Although East Kutubuan has proto-TNG vocabulary, Ross considers its inclusion in TNG to be questionable.