Social:Nimboran languages
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| Nimboran | |
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| Grime River | |
| Geographic distribution | New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | North Papuan or independent language family
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| 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]
Foley (2018) classifies them separately as an independent language family.[3]
Classification
- Nimboran family: Kemtuik–Gresi, Mlap, Mekwei, Nimboran
Pronouns
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Nimboran are,
I *genam thou *kom, komot s/he ?
Below are pronouns in Nimboran languages as given by Foley (2018):[3]
Nimboran pronouns Nimboran Kemtuik Gresi Mlap Mekwei 1excl ngo gənam ganam ngam kə ~ kat 1incl yo imot 2 ko mot ko kom kmot 3 no nemot
As in Kaure, pronouns are not specified for number in the Nimboran language.[3]
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Nimboranic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/nimb1257.
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Foley, William A. (2018). "The languages of Northwest New Guinea". in Palmer, Bill. The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 433–568. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
- Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". in Andrew Pawley. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.
External links
- Nimboran word lists from Voorhoeve (1975) (TransNewGuinea.org)
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