Left May languages
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The Left May or Arai languages are a small language family of a half dozen closely related but not mutually intelligible languages in the center of New Guinea, along the left bank of the May River. There are about 1600 speakers in all.
The languages are Rocky Peak (Yinibu), Nakwi, Iteri, Bo, Ama, Nimo, and Owiniga.
These languages neighbor the Amto-Musan languages, but do not appear to be related to them. Malcolm Ross linked them to the Kwomtari-Baibai languages in a Left May-Kwomtari family, based on similarities in the pronouns of the only Left May language with data available, Rocky Peak.