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. Classification The languages constituted a branch of Stephen Wurm's 1970 Trans-Fly proposal, which he later incorporated into his 1975 expansion of the Trans–New Guinea family as part of a Trans-Fly – Bulaka River branch. They are retained as a family but removed from Trans–New Guinea in the classifications of Malcolm Ross and Timothy Usher. Wurm had concluded that some of his purported Trans-Fly languages were not in the Trans–New Guinea family but rather heavily influenced by Trans–New Guinea languages. Ross (2005) removed the bulk of the languages, including Eastern Trans-Fly, from Wurm's Trans–New Guinea. Timothy Usher links the four languages, which he calls Oriomo Plateau, to the Pahoturi languages and the Tabo language in an expanded Eastern Trans-Fly family. Languages Meriam (within the national borders of Australia) Bine Wipi (Gidra) Gizrra Oriomo (Eastern Trans-Fly) languages and respective demographic information listed by Evans (2018) are provided below. Geographical coordinates are also provided for each dialect (which are named after villages). {| |+ List of Oriomo (Eastern Trans-Fly) languages ! Language !! Location !! Population !! Alternate names !! Dialects |- | Gizrra || south Oriomo-Bituri Rural LLG, Western Province (Papua New Guinea) || 1,050 || Gizra || Western Gizra and Waidoro () dialects |- | Bine || south Oriomo-Bituri Rural LLG, Western Province (Papua New Guinea) || 2,000 || || Kunini (), Boze-Giringarede (), Sogal (), Masingle (), Tate (), Irupi-Drageli (; ), and Sebe () dialects |- | Wipi || east Oriomo-Bituri Rural LLG, Western Province (Papua New Guinea) || 3,500 || Wipim, Gidra, Oriomo, Jibu || Dorogori (), Abam (), Peawa (), Ume (), Kuru (), Woigo (), Wonie (), Iamega (), Gamaewe (), Podari (), Wipim (), Kapal (), Rual (), Guiam, and Yuta dialects |- | Meryam Mir || Australia: Torres Strait Islands of Erub (Darnley Island), Ugar (Stephen Island), and Mer (Murray Island) || 700 || Meriam Mir || Erub (no longer used) and Mer dialects |} Pronouns The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto–Eastern Trans-Fly are, {| class=wikitable |- | rowspan=2| I || rowspan=2| *ka || exclusive we || *ki |- | inclusive we || *mi |- | thou || *ma || you || *we |- | he/she/it || *tabV; *e || they || *tepi |}