Northwestern Makuran

The northwestern Makuran langauge family, a sub-grouping of the Makuran family which derives from Proto-Makuran, encompasses several branches of wildly divergent descendants. It is generally considered slightly more conservative than its direct sister-grouping, the northern Makuran branch; most northwestern languages preserve many features lost in their more north-eastern cousins.

The northwestern Makuran family is made up of two sub-branches, one of which branches further off:
 * Edāsan languages
 * Elahan (†)
 * Silari languages
 * Three major clades of Silari languages
 * Bentardari (†)

All northwestern languages share some common historical developments, both grammatical and phonological, that point to a common ancestor rather than a wave-like spead of changes.