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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 by the Nimboran people 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]
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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