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 Ross or ROSS may refer to:
People
* Clan Ross, a Highland Scottish clan
* Ross (name), including a list of people with the surname or given name Ross, as well as the meaning
* Earl of Ross, a peerage of Scotland
Places
* RoSS, the Republic of Sou ...
(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 Unpublished manuscript.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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