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Nimboran languages

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Geographic distribution
  
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

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

    The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Nimboran are,

    References

    Nimboran languages Wikipedia