Nimboran languages
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| Nimboran | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification: | a primary family of Papuan languages |
| Subdivisions: |
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| Ethnologue code: | 17-1550 |
The Nimboran languages are a small independent family of Papuan languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross, 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.
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Classification [edit]
Pronouns [edit]
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Nimboran are,
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I *genam thou *kom, komot s/he ?
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide, Jack Golson, eds. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.
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