Download coordinates as: The Eastern Trans-Fly (or Oriomo Plateau) languages are a small independent family of Papuan languages spoken in the Oriomo Plateau to the west of the Fly River in New Guinea.
They are retained as a family but removed from Trans–New Guinea in the classifications of Malcolm Ross and Timothy Usher.
In 2005, Ross removed most of these languages, including Eastern Trans-Fly, from Wurm's Trans-New Guinea classification.
Oriomo (Eastern Trans-Fly) languages and respective demographic information listed by Evans (2018) are provided below.
[4] The words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate (e.g. iřeʔu, iřeku, ilkʰəp for “eye”) or not (e.g. dřeŋgo, ume, yɔŋg for “dog”).