Nimboran languages

The Nimboran languages are a small independent family of Papuan languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross, that had been part of Stephen Würm's Trans-New Guinea proposal. However, when proto-Nimboran pronouns are reconstructed (*genam "I" and kom or komot "thou"), they don't much resemble the proto-TNG pronouns *na and *ga.

Classification

• Nimboran family: Gresi, Mlap, Kemtuik, Mekwei, Nimboran

Pronouns

The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Nimboran are,

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

See also

• Papuan languages

Reference

• Malcom Ross (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages." In: Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide and Jack Golson, eds, Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples, 15-66. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

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