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The Torricelli languages are a relatively young language family of about fifty languages of the northern Papua New Guinea coast, spoken by only about 80,000 people in all. The most populous and best known Torricelli languages are the Arapesh, with about 30,000 speakers.
The most promising external relationship for the Torricelli family is the Sepik languages. In reconstructions of both families, the pronouns have a plural suffix *-m and a dual suffix *-p.
The Torricelli languages occupy three...
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