The Sepik Hill languages form the largest and most ramified branch of the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea. They are spoken along the southern margin of the Sepik floodplain in the foothills of Central Range of south-central East Sepik Province.

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Sepik Hill
Geographic distribution	Sepik Hills, south-central East Sepik Province, in the Sepik River basin of Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classification	Sepik Sepik Hill
Glottolog	sepi1258
The Sepik languages as classified by Foley (2018). The Sepik Hill languages are in green.

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The languages according to Usher (2020) are,^[1]

Sepik Hills

• Saniyo-Hiyewe
• Southwest Sepik Hills: Niksek (Paka, Gabiano), Piame, Hewa
• Bahinemo–Berinomo
• East Sepik Hills (Alamblak etc.)

The languages according to Foley (2018) are:^[2]

Sepik Hill

• Eastern (Alamblak etc.)
• Central (Bahinemo etc.)
• Western: Saniyo-Hiyewe, Paka (Setiali), Gabiano (Niksek), Piame, Bikaru,^{[clarification needed]} Umairof, Hewa

Other than disagreement at to what is a language or a dialect (Glottolog, for example, concludes that the 'Bikaru' language is probably spurious, and doesn't list Umairof at all), the only difference from Usher is in combining Sanio with the Southwest Sepik Hills languages as a Western branch.

Pronouns in Sepik Hill languages:^[2]

The following basic vocabulary words are from Davies & Comrie (1985),^[3] Dye et al. (1968),^[4] Foley (2005),^[5] Macdonald (1973),^[6] and various SIL field notes, as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:^[7]