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Greenberg's subgrouping of these languages has not been accepted by the few specialists who have worked on the classification of these languages.

But, the work of Stephen Wurm ( 1982 ) and Malcolm Ross ( 2005 ) has provided considerable support for his once-radical idea that these languages form a single genetic unit.

Wurm stated that the lexical similarities between Great Andamanese and the West Papuan and Timor – Alor families " are quite striking and amount to virtual formal identity [...] in a number of instances.

" He believes this to be due to a linguistic substratum.