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|[[Isirawa language|Isirawa]]

|1,800

| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;3" |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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| [[Kuot language|Kuot]]

|1,500

| data-sort-value="2" | Vibrant

| 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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| [[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>

| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="2" | Vulnerable

|[[Australia]]

| 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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|[[Touo language|Touo]]

|1,900

|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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|[[Usku language|Usku]]

|20 ~ 160

| stylerowspan="text-align:3" center;data-sort-value="4" |Moribund

|[[Indonesia]]

|Foley (2018) classifies it as a language isolate.<ref name="Foley-NWNG"/>

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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.