- Source: Nimboran languages
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.
Foley (2018) classifies the Nimboran languages separately as an independent language family.
Classification
The languages are:
Nimboran (Grime River)
East
Mekwei (Moi)
Gresi–Kemtuik
Kemtuik
Gresi
West
Mlap (Kuangsu)
Namblong (Nimboran)
Proto-language
= Pronouns
=The pronouns Ross (2005) reconstructs for proto-Nimboran are,
Below are pronouns in the Nimboran languages as given by Foley (2018):
As in Kaure, pronouns are not specified for number in the Nimboran language.
= Basic vocabulary
=Some lexical reconstructions by Usher (2020) are:
Vocabulary comparison
The following basic vocabulary words are from Voorhoeve (1975), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database.
The words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate (e.g. yaŋkabu, iŋkabu for “head”) or not (e.g. kapray, tendu for “one”).
References
External links
Nimboran word lists from Voorhoeve (1975) (TransNewGuinea.org)
Grime River. New Guinea World.
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Rumpun bahasa Nimboran
- Johannes Cornelis Anceaux
- Rumpun bahasa Papua
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Bahasa Sunda
- Bahasa Bali
- Bahasa Javindo
- Bahasa Lampung
- Bahasa Batak Mandailing
- Bahasa Ternate
- Nimboran languages
- Nimboran language
- Languages of Indonesia
- Foja Range languages
- Papuan languages
- Northwest Papuan languages
- Trans–New Guinea languages
- Kwerbic languages
- Orya language
- Mlap language
