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Papuan languages
Map of the languages found on the Doberai Peninsula of New Guinea.
The Torricelli language family is spoken in the Torricelli Mountains, a region located between the north coast of Papua New Guinea and the Sepik River. This family consists of nearly 50 languages and is considered highly divergent from other Papuan languages found in the surrounding Sepik-Ramu basin.1