Nimboran languages

Nimboran
Grime River
Geographic
distribution		Grime-Nawa Valley, Jayapura Regency, Papua Province, Indonesia
Linguistic classificationNorthwest Papuan?
Language codes
Glottolognimb1257

The Nimboran languages are a small family of Papuan languages, spoken in the Grime River and Nawa River watershed in Jayapura Regency, 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. Usher places them in a North Papuan stock that resembles Cowan's proposal.[1]

Foley (2018) classifies the Nimboran languages separately as an independent language family.[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference ngw was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Foley, William A. (2018). "The languages of Northwest New Guinea". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 433–568. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.