Malcolm Ross (2005) tentatively retains both Teberan and Pawaia within TNG, but sees no other connection between them. Noting insufficient evidence, Pawley and Hammarström (2018) tentatively leave Teberan as unclassified rather than as part of Trans-New Guinea. Pawley and Hammarström (2018) do not consider there to be sufficient evidence for Teberan to be classified as part of
Trans-New Guinea, though they do note the following lexical resemblances between the Teberan languages and
proto-Trans-New Guinea. ==Vocabulary comparison==