Nimboran | |
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Geographic distribution |
New Guinea |
Linguistic classification | One of the world's primary language families |
Glottolog | nimb1257 |
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.
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Nimboran are,