The Yareban or Musa River languages are a small family of Trans–New Guinea languages spoken near the Musa River in the "Bird's Tail" (southeastern peninsula) of New Guinea.
They are classified within the Southeast Papuan branch of Trans–New Guinea.
The languages are, Barijian is suggested by lexicostatistics in Dutton (1971).
Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows:[2] *s and *dz were acquired through loans, but may have already been present in the protolanguage.
Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as:[2] Some lexical reconstructions by Usher (2020) are:[2] Yareban reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea (pTNG) etyma are:[3] Yareba language: Abia language: