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Isirawa is a Papuan language spoken by about two thousand people on the north coast of Papua province Indonesia. It’s a local trade language and use is vigorous. Stephen Wurm (1975) linked it to the Kwerba languages within the Trans–New Guinea family and it does share about 20% of its vocabulary with neighboring Kwerba languages. However based on its pronouns Malcolm Ross (2005) felt he could not substantiate such a link and left it as a language isolate.