Nimboran languages
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| Nimboran | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution: |
New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification: | One of the world's primary language families |
| 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.
Classification[edit]
Pronouns[edit]
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Nimboran are,
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I *genam thou *kom, komot s/he ?
References[edit]
- ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nimboran". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- 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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