Papi–Asaba languages

The Papi and Asaba languages form a small family of two somewhat distantly related languages of northern Papua New Guinea, namely Papi and Suarmin (Asaba).

Papi–Asaba
Papi Frieda and Kenu Rivers
Geographic distribution	Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classification	Sepik Leonhard Schultze Papi–Asaba
Subdivisions	Papi Suarmin
Language codes
Glottolog	None

Donald Laycock (1973) classified them as part of a Walio–Papi, a.k.a. Leonhard Schultze, branch of his Sepik–Ramu proposal. Malcolm Ross (2005) breaks up Walio–Papi, and suggests that the Papi languages may instead be part of the Sepik Hill branch of the (now Sepik) family. Glottolog does not find the evidence of a Papi family to be convincing. Foley (2018) and Usher (2020) retain them in Leonhard Schultze.^[1]