Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute
Nomu is spoken by approximately 810 people (1975) living in five villages in Papua New Guinea's Morobe province. Many Nomu speakers speak Ono as a second language (Hooley and McElhanon 1970: 1070-1071, McElhanon 1975: 534, 1984: 24, Suter 2018: 7, q.v. p. 4.)
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McElhanon and Voorhoeve (1970) 67 Trans New Guinea comparisons include examples from Nomu
McElhanon (2012) 790 comparative terms for Nomu
McElhanon (n.d.) field notes for Nomu (unobtained)
Suter (2018) …
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Suter (2018: 298-299 after McElhanon n.d.) gives personal pronouns for Nomu in five case forms as follows (morpheme separations ours):
| basic | ergative | genitive | possessive | emphatic | |
| 1 sg. | no | no-ŋo | no-got | -n ~ -ne | no-n |
| 2 sg. | go | go-ŋo | go-got | -ge | go-i |
| 3 sg. | jok | jok-ŋo | jo-kot | -ŋe | jok-ŋe |
| 1 pl. | nen | nen-ŋo | nen-got | -ŋene | nen-ŋene |
| 2 pl. | je | je-ŋo | je-got | -(j)eŋe | je-iŋe |
| 3 pl. | (jok-)je | je-ŋo | je-got | -(j)eŋe | je-iŋe |
| 1 dl. | net | net-ŋo | net-kot | -ŋere | net-ŋere |
| 2 dl. | jet | jet-ŋo | jet-kot | -(j)etŋe | je-itŋe |
| 3 dl. | (jok-)jet | jet-ŋo | jet-kot | -(j)etŋe | je-itŋe |
The emphatics are usually formed by the suffixation of the possissive to the base.
Suter (2018: 322 after McElhanon n.d.) gives Nomu subject desinences for final verbs in six tenses/moods as follows. Second and third persons are dinstinguished from one another only in singulars (morpheme separations ours):
| past | future | present | habitual | imperative | irrealis | |
| 1 sg. | -an | -g-an | -wan | -ma-wan | -be | -bal-ak |
| 2 sg. | -on | -g-on | -dzan | -mal-an | -no | -bonon-ak |
| 3 sg. | -op | -g-op | -dzap | -mal-ap | -ok | -n-ak |
| 1 pl. | -en | -g-en | -wen-en | -ma-wen-en | -ne | -benen-ak |
| 2/3 pl. | -e | -g-e | -wen-e | -ma-wen-e | -ŋet | -be-ak |
| 1 dl. | -et | -g-et | -wer-et | -ma-wer-et | -de | -berer-ak |
| 2/3 dl. | -ot | -g-ot | -wor-ot | -ma-wor-ot | -ot | -boror-ak |
Different-subject medial verbs distinguish three aspects as follows;
| sequential | simultaneous | durative | |
| 1 sg. | -be | -be-so | -ma-be |
| 2 sg. | -no | -no-so | -ma-no |
| 3 sg. | -e | -eso | -mal-e |
| 1 pl. | -en-e | -ne-so | -mal-en-e |
| 2/3 pl. | -e | -ŋet-so | -mal-e |
| 1 dl. | -er-e | -re-so | -mal-er-e |
| 2/3 dl. | -or-o | -ot-so | -mal-or-o |