Grime-Nawa Valley, Jayapura Regency, Papua Province, Indonesia
Linguistic classification
Northwest Papuan?
Foja Range (Tor–Kwerba)
Nimboran
Glottolog
nimb1257
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]
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