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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://
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>{{harvp|Laycock|1973}}</ref>
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