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|[[Isirawa language|Isirawa]]
|1,800
| style="text-align: center;" |1,800
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" |Vibrant
| rowspan="3" |[[Papua New Guinea]]
|Whilst classed as a [[Kwerbic languages|Kwerbic language]], it only shares 20% of its vocabulary and is considered by some linguists to be an isolate.
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| [[Kol language (Papua New Guinea)|Kol]]
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|Vulnerable
|[[Solomon Islands]]
|Classified as an isolate by [[Endangered Languages Project]];<ref>{{Cite web |title=Did you know Lavukaleve is threatened? |url=http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/10269 |access-date=2025-07-07 |website=Endangered Languages |language=en}}</ref> historically classified as a [[Central Solomon languages|Central Solomon language]], but little evidence was found of a relationship by Muller.<ref name="ASJP-4">Müller, André, Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Eric W. Holman, Sebastian Sauppe, Pamela Brown, Harald Hammarström, Oleg Belyaev, Johann-Mattis List, Dik Bakker, Dmitri Egorov, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Matthew S. Dryer, Evgenia Korovina, David Beck, Helen Geyer, Pattie Epps, Anthony Grant, and Pilar Valenzuela. 2013. ''[https://asjp.clld.org/static/WorldLanguageTree-004.zip ASJP World Language Trees of Lexical Similarity: Version 4 (October 2013)]''.</ref>
but little evidence was found of a relationship by Muller<ref name="ASJP-4">Müller, André, Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Eric W. Holman, Sebastian Sauppe, Pamela Brown, Harald Hammarström, Oleg Belyaev, Johann-Mattis List, Dik Bakker, Dmitri Egorov, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Matthew S. Dryer, Evgenia Korovina, David Beck, Helen Geyer, Pattie Epps, Anthony Grant, and Pilar Valenzuela. 2013. ''[https://asjp.clld.org/static/WorldLanguageTree-004.zip ASJP World Language Trees of Lexical Similarity: Version 4 (October 2013)]''.</ref>
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| [[Malak-Malak language|Malak-Malak]]
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|25,000
|Vibrant
| Spoken in the central area of the [[Bird's Head Peninsula]] located in the province of [[Southwest Papua]]. Sometimes linked to [[West Papuan languages]] but others consider it an isolate.
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|[[Molof language|Molof]]
|230
|Vulnerable
|Usher (2020) tentatively suggests it may be related to [[Pauwasi languages]].<ref name=ngw>[https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/pauwasi-river New Guinea World]</ref> However, [[Søren Wichmann]] (2018) and Foley (2018) consider it to be an isolate.<ref name="Wichmann2013">Wichmann, Søren. 2013. [http://www.langlxmelanesia.com/wichmann313-386.pdf A classification of Papuan languages] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125143227/https://www.langlxmelanesia.com/wichmann313-386.pdf |date=2020-11-25 }}. In: Hammarström, Harald and Wilco van den Heuvel (eds.), History, contact and classification of Papuan languages (Language and Linguistics in Melanesia, Special Issue 2012), 313-386. Port Moresby: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea.</ref><ref name="Foley-NWNG">{{cite book |last=Foley |first=William A. |title=The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide |date=2018 |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton |isbn=978-3-11-028642-7 |editor1-last=Palmer |editor1-first=Bill |series=The World of Linguistics |volume=4 |___location=Berlin |pages=433–568 |chapter=The languages of Northwest New Guinea}}</ref>
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|[[Mpur language|Mpur]]
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|Vulnerable
|[[Solomon Islands]]
|Classified as an isolate by Glottolog.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Glottolog 5.2 - Touo |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/touo1238 |access-date=2025-07-07 |website=glottolog.org}}</ref>
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|[[Umbugarla language|Umbugarla]]
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|[[Usku language|Usku]]
| style="text-align: center;" |20 ~ 160
| style="text-align: center;" |Moribund
|[[Indonesia]]
|Foley (2018) classifies it as a language isolate.<ref name="Foley-NWNG"/>
|Classed as an isolate in 2018
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| [[Wagiman language|Wagiman]]