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Nimboran languages
Foja Range language family of New Guinea From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Nimboran languages are a small family of Papuan languages, spoken in the Grime River and Nawa River watershed in Jayapura Regency, that had been part of Stephen Wurm's Trans–New Guinea proposal. However, when proto-Nimboran pronouns are reconstructed (*genam "I" and kom or komot "thou"), they have little resemblance to the proto-TNG pronouns *na and *ga. Usher places them in a North Papuan stock that resembles Cowan's proposal.[1]
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Foley (2018) classifies the Nimboran languages separately as an independent language family.[2]
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Classification
The languages are:[1]
Proto-language
Pronouns
The pronouns Ross (2005) reconstructs for proto-Nimboran are,
I *genam thou *kom, komot s/he ?
Below are pronouns in the Nimboran languages as given by Foley (2018):[2]
As in Kaure, pronouns are not specified for number in the Nimboran language.[2]
Basic vocabulary
Some lexical reconstructions by Usher (2020) are:[1]
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Vocabulary comparison
The following basic vocabulary words are from Voorhoeve (1975),[3] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database.[4]
The words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate (e.g. yaŋkabu, iŋkabu for “head”) or not (e.g. kapray, tendu for “one”).
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