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|[[Australia]]
|Spoken in the northern part of [[Arnhem Land]] until the early 1980s. Sometimes considered a small language family consisting of Mengerrdji, Urningangk and Erre.<ref name="Campbell 2006">Campbell, R. "A Sketch Grammar of Urningangk, Erre and Mengerrdji: the Giimbiyu languages of Western Arnhem Land". Honours thesis. University of Melbourne, 2006.</ref> Part of a proposal for the undemonstrated [[Arnhem Land languages|Arnhem Land language family]].
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|[[Isirawa language|Isirawa]]
| style="text-align: center;" |1,800
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" |Vibrant
|Whilst classed as [[Kwerbic languages]], 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]]
|4,000
| data-sort-value="1" | Vibrant▼
▲| rowspan="2" |[[Papua New Guinea]]
| Spoken in the northeastern part of [[New Britain]]. Possibly related to the poorly known [[Sulka language|Sulka]], or the [[Baining languages]], suggested as part of the [[East Papuan languages]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Kol |url=http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/10809 |website=Endangered Language Project}}</ref><ref name="Dunn">{{cite journal |last1=Dunn |first1=Michael |last2=Reesnik |first2=Ger |last3=Terrill |first3=Angela |title=The East Papuan Languages: A Preliminary Typological Appraisal |journal=Oceanic Linguistics |date=2002 |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=28–62 |doi=10.1353/ol.2002.0019 |hdl=11858/00-001M-0000-0013-1ADC-1 |s2cid=143012930 |url=https://www.eva.mpg.de/documents/Linguistic%20Society%20of%20America,%20MUSE/Dunn_East_OceanLing_2002_1555925.pdf |access-date=6 February 2021}}</ref>
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| [[Kuot language|Kuot]]
|1,500
| data-sort-value="2" |
| Spoken on [[New Ireland (island)|New Ireland]]. Also known as Panaras. Suggested to form part of the [[East Papuan languages|East Papuan family]].<ref name="Dunn" />
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|[[Mawes language|Mawes]]
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|Likely isolate.<ref>Foley (2018)</ref><ref>Harald Hammarström. 2010. The Genetic Position of the Mawes Language. Paper presented at the Workshop on the Languages of Papua 2, 8–12 February 2010, Manokwari, Indonesia.</ref>
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|[[Maybrat language|Maybrat]]
|25,000
| Spoken in the central area of [[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
|<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]]
|5,000
|Spoken in the Mpur and Amberbaken Districts, [[Tambrauw Regency]] on the north coast of the [[Bird's Head Peninsula]].
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|1,200
|Vibrant
| rowspan="
|Spoken in 6 villages in [[West Kikori Rural LLG]] and [[East Kikori Rural LLG]] of [[Gulf Province]], near the [[Aird Hills]] and [[Kikori River]] tributaries.
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|Vibrant
|Spoken across the eastern end of New Britain. Suggested to form part of the [[East Papuan languages|East Papuan family]].<ref name="Dunn" />
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|[[Tause language|Tause]]
|500
|Vulnerable
|[[Indonesia]]
|Was classified to encourage research as a [[Lakes Plain languages|Lakes Plain language]], but there has been little evidence so has been classed as an isolate.
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| [[Tayap language|Tayap]]
| data-sort-value="49" |<50
| data-sort-value="4" | Moribund
|[[Papua New Guinea]]
| Formerly spoken in the village of [[Gapun]]. Links to [[Lower Sepik languages]] and [[Torricelli languages]] have been explored, but the general consensus among linguists is that it is an isolate unrelated to surrounding languages.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VXWcDwAAQBAJ |title=A Grammar and Dictionary of Tayap: The Life and Death of a Papuan Language |last1=Kulick |first1=Don |last2=Terrill |first2=Angela |series=Pacific Linguistics 661 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter Inc. |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-5015-1220-9 |___location=Boston/Berlin }}</ref>
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| [[Tiwi language|Tiwi]]
|2,100<ref>{{cite web|title=SBS Australian Census Explorer|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/creative/census-explorer|access-date=9 Jan 2023}}</ref>
| data-sort-value="2" | Vulnerable
| rowspan="
| Spoken in the [[Tiwi Islands]] in the [[Timor Sea]]. Traditionally Tiwi is polysynthetic, but the Tiwi spoken by younger generations is not.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lee|first=Jennifer|date=1987|title=Tiwi Today: A Study of Language Change in a Contact Situation|url=https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/145421/1/PL-C96.pdf|journal=Pacific Linguistics|page=50}}</ref>
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| style="text-align: center;" colspan="2" |Extinct
|Possibly a language isolate. [[Ngomburr language|Ngomburr]] likely a dialect.
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|[[Usku language|Usku]]
| style="text-align: center;" |20 ~ 160
| style="text-align: center;" |Moribund
|[[Indonesia]]
|Classed as an Isolate in 2018
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| [[Wagiman language|Wagiman]]
|11
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="4" |Moribund
| rowspan="2" |[[Australia]]
|Spoken in the southern part of the [[Top End]]. May be distantly related to the [[Wardaman language|Yangmanic languages]],<ref name="Merlan 1994">Merlan, F. "A Grammar of Wardaman: a language of the Northern Territory of Australia." Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994.</ref> which might in turn be a member of the [[Macro-Gunwinyguan languages|Macro-Gunwinyguan]] family,<ref name="Evans 2003">Evans, N. "Introduction" in Evans, N., ed. "The Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages of Northern Australia: comparative studies of the continent's most linguistically complex region". ''Studies in Language Change'', 552. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 2003.</ref> but neither link has been demonstrated.
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