Geographicdistribution New Guinea | Glottolog nimb1257 | |
Linguistic classification One of the world's primary language families | ||
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
Pronouns
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Nimboran are,
References
Nimboran languages Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA