Nimboran languages

Nimboran
Grime River
Geographic
distribution		 New Guinea
Linguistic classification North Papuan?
Glottolog nimb1257[1]

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. Usher places them in a North Papuan stock that resembles Cowan's proposal.[2]

Classification

Pronouns

The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Nimboran are,

I*genam
thou*kom, komot
s/he?

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nimboran". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. ↑

  • Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15&ndash, 66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.


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