Namblong
Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute
Situation
Namblong (Nmblong, Nemblong, Nimboran) is spokeb by apprixmately 3,500 people (1978) living in 25 villages south of the Grime (Grimi) river and west of the Nembu, a tributary of the Grime, in the Nimboran district of Jayapura regency in Indonesia's Papua province. Nimboran is a Dutch colonial rendition of Nemblong, a less common native variant of Namblong. According to May, this name likely originates as Nem Blong /nem bloŋ/ “[the people who live on] the Nembu river” (May 1997: 1-4.)
Sources
Galis (1955) 29 comparative terms for Nimboran
Anceaux (1965) grammar of Nimboran
Voorhoeve (1975: 110) 40 comparative terms for Nimboran after Anceaux (n.d.)
Smits and Voorhoeve eds. (1994: 18-266) comparative vocabulary of Nambrong of Besym/Besum after an unnamed constable and of an unspecified variety of Nambrong after Anceaux (n.d.)
May and May (1981) phonology of Nimboran
May (1981) Nimboran kin terms
May (1997) grammar of Nimboran (Namblong)
Steinhauer (1995) Nimboran verbal morphology (unobtained)
Steinhauer (1998) Nimboran verbal morphology (unobtained)
Swan et al. (2015, 2016) picture dictionary of Namblong
Swan et al. (2015, 2016) Namblong reader
Swan et al. (2019) dictionary of Namblong
Swan et al. (2019) Namblong conjunctions
Swan et al. (2019) Namblong verbal morphology after May (1997)
Phonology
[under construction]
May (1997: 12-46) gives 16 consonants and 6 vowels for Nimboran as follows
| m | n | ŋ | ||
| p | t | k | ||
| b | d | |||
| mb | nd | ŋg | ||
| s | h | |||
| w | l | j |
| i | ʉ | u |
| e | o | |
| a |
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Pronouns
[under construction]
May (1997: 142-152) gives Nimboran pronouns in æ case forms as follows:
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Verbal morphology
[under construction]
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