Abstract
In eastern Indonesia a heterogeneous group of some 50 Papuan languages are spoken in the area from Timor and adjacent islands Alor and Pantar to the Bird's Head peninsula and the Cenderawasih Bay of Papua. These West Papuan languages form an areal network of basically unrelated families and a number of isolates in the center of the Bird's Head and in the Cenderawasih Bay. They share a number of typological features, not only between them but also with the Austronesian languages spoken in this region, betraying approximately four millenia of contact since the Austronesians first arrived in this area.
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