The Papi and Asaba languages form a small family of two somewhat distantly related languages of northern Papua New Guinea, namely Papi and Suarmin (Asaba).
Donald Laycock (1973) classified them as part of a WalioâÂÂPapi, a.k.a. Leonhard Schultze, branch of his SepikâÂÂRamu proposal. Malcolm Ross (2005) breaks up WalioâÂÂPapi, and suggests that the Papi languages may instead be part of the Sepik Hill branch of the (now Sepik) family. Glottolog does not find the evidence of a Papi family to be convincing. Foley (2018) and Usher (2020) retain them in Leonhard Schultze.