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==Classification==
Tayap is not related to the neighboring Lower Sepik languages, though a relationship to the more distant [[Torricelli languages|Torricelli]] family has been proposed by Usher (2020).<ref name=ngw>[https://sites.google.com/site/newguineaworld/families/torricelli-range-sepik-coast/sepik-coast/taiap New Guinea World -- Taiap]</ref>
In the 1970s Australian linguist [[Donald Laycock]] classified Tayap (which he called "[[Gapun]]") as a sub-phylum of the Sepik-Ramu language phylum, on the basis of Georg Höltker's 1938 word list and a few verb paradigms that Laycock gathered from two speakers.<ref>{{Citation |last=Laycock |first=D.C.|title=Sepik Languages - Checklist and Preliminary Classification |publisher=Pacific Linguistics |year=1973 |series=Pacific Linguistics B-25 |___location=Canberra |doi=10.15144/pl-b25}}</ref>
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