Nimboran languages

The Nimboran languages are a small family of Papuan languages, spoken by the Nimboran people in the Grime River and Nawa River watershed in Jayapura Regency, that had been part of Stephen Wurm's Trans–New [Guinea languages|Trans–New Guinea] proposal. However, when proto-Nimboran pronouns are reconstructed , 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.
Foley classifies the Nimboran languages separately as an independent language family.

Classification

The languages are:

Nimboran
*East
**Mekwei
**Gresi–Kemtuik
***Kemtuik
***Gresi
*West
**Mlap
**Namblong

Proto-language

Pronouns

The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Nimboran are,
Below are pronouns in the Nimboran languages as given by Foley :
As in Kaure, pronouns are not specified for number in the Nimboran language.

Basic vocabulary

Some lexical reconstructions by Usher are:

Vocabulary comparison

The following basic vocabulary words are from Voorhoeve, as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database.
The words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate or not.