The Nimboran languages are a small independent family

Language family

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term 'family' comes from the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a...

 of Papuan languages

Papuan languages

The Papuan languages are those languages of the western Pacific which are neither Austronesian nor Australian. The term does not presuppose a genetic relationship. The concept of Papuan peoples as distinct from Melanesians was first suggested and named by Sidney Herbert Ray in 1892.-The...

 in the classification of Malcolm Ross

Malcolm Ross

Malcolm David Ross is a linguist and professor at the Australian National University. He has published work on Austronesian and Papuan languages, historical linguistics, and language contact.-External links:**...

, that had been part of Stephen Wurm

Stephen Wurm

Stephen Adolphe Wurm was a Hungarian-born Australian linguist.- Biography :Wurm was born in Budapest, the second child to the German-speaking Adolphe Wurm and Hungarian-speaking Anna Novroczky, and was christened Istvan Adolphe 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.

Classification

• Nimboran family: Kemtuik
  Kemtuik language
  Kemtuik is a Papuan language of Indonesia. It is very close to Gresi....
  
  –Gresi
  Gresi language
  Gresi is a Papuan language of Indonesia. It is very close to Kemtuik....
  
  , Mlap, Mekwei
  Mekwei language
  Mekwei is a Papuan language of Indonesia....
  
  , Nimboran
  Nimboran language
  Nimboran is a Papuan language of Indonesia spoken by mostly older adults. Younger generations have shifted to Papuan Malay....
  
  

Pronouns

The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Nimboran are,

I	*genam
thou	*kom, komot
s/he	?