Tofanma or Tofamna is a poorly documented
Papuan language
The Papuan languages are the non- Austronesian and non-Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people. It is a strictly geogra ...
of Indonesia. Wurm (1975) placed it as an independent branch of
Trans–New Guinea, but
Ross (2005) could not find enough evidence to classify it. It appears to be related to
Namla, a neighboring language.
Vocabulary
Tofanma vocabulary from Foley (2018):
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The following basic vocabulary words are from Voorhoeve (1971, 1975), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:
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References
*Wambaliau, Theresia. 2005. Survey Report on the Tofanma Language in Papua, Indonesia. (in Indonesian). Unpublished manuscript. Jayapura: SIL Indonesia.
External links
Tofanma word list at TransNewGuinea.org
Languages of western New Guinea
Namla–Tofanma languages
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