This family includes eight language varieties including Agöb (Dabu), Em,[1] Ende, Idan,[2] Idi, Idzuwe,[3] Kawam, and Taeme, which are spoken in the Pahoturi River area south of the Fly River, just west of the Eastern Trans-Fly languages.

[5] Some Pahoturi River speakers were originally hunter-gatherers, but have recently shifted to becoming gardeners.

Pahoturi River languages and respective demographic information listed by Evans (2018) are provided below.

[5] Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows:[7] The pronouns Ross reconstructs for the family are:[4] Proto-Pahoturi River Lindsey lists the following pronouns for each of the language varieties in the family.

The following table lists some general lexical, grammatical, textual, and typological resources that have been identified for each of the currently spoken Pahoturi River languages.