Namla language

Namla is a poorly documented Papuan language of Indonesia. It appears to be related to Tofanma, a neighboring language. It is spoken in Namla village, Senggi District, Keerom Regency.^[1]

Namla
Region	Papua: Keerom Regency, Senggi District, Namla village
Native speakers	30 (2005)[1]
Language family	Pauwasi West Pauwasi Namla–Tofanma Namla
Language codes
ISO 639-3	naa
Glottolog	naml1240
ELP	Namla

Namla is close to extinction due to its being replaced by Tofanma and possibly also Papuan Malay.^[2]: 463

Phonology

Consonants^[3]

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Dorsal
Plosive	p b	t d	ɟ	k g
Fricative	f	s		h
Nasal	m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Approximant	w	r, l	j

Vowels^[3]

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid	e	ə	o
Low		a

Vocabulary

Namla vocabulary from Foley (2018):^[2]

gloss	Namla
‘bird’	atu
‘blood’	ləke
‘bone’	da
‘breast’	momu
‘ear’	wuronodake
‘eat’	sa
‘egg’	le
‘eye’	lɪle
‘fire’	wo
‘give’	væn
‘go’	wo
‘ground’	jao
‘hair’	kəmbrada
‘hear’	wara
‘I’	na
‘leg’	buda
‘louse’	ble
‘man’	lamokra
‘moon’	pei
‘name’	ei
‘one’	knonu
‘road, path’	mitu
‘see’	mesa
‘sky’	nəmləu
‘stone’	sou
‘sun’	nəmane
‘tongue’	kagoku
‘tooth’	dəmda
‘tree’	ra
‘two’	nene
‘water’	nomu
‘we’	mani
‘woman’	ara
‘you (sg)’	wu(giknoko)
‘you (pl)’	yuka