Tofanma language
| Tofanma | |
|---|---|
| Region | Papua: Keerom Regency, Senggi District, most of Namla, Tofanma Dua, and Tofanma Satu villages |
Native speakers | 250 (2005)[1] |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tlg |
| Glottolog | tofa1246 |
| ELP | Tofanma |
Tofanma or Tofamna is a poorly documented Papuan language 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):[2]
gloss Tofanma ‘bird’ yetai ‘blood’ læki ‘bone’ da ‘breast’ mu ‘ear’ kemblale ‘eat’ dimisipe ‘egg’ li ‘eye’ yei ‘fire’ ve ‘give’ vænə ‘go’ wao ‘ground’ yai ‘hair’ kemblena ‘hear’ varli ‘I’ ne ‘leg’ wukudaʔ ‘louse’ bili ‘man’ lamle ‘moon’ min-yaku ‘name’ ame ‘one’ kenanu ‘road, path’ mæki ‘see’ mæsi ‘sky’ nəmlo ‘stone’ kəlo ‘sun’ yaku ‘tongue’ kuguku ‘tooth’ dimi ‘tree’ la ‘two’ næni ‘water’ basu ‘we’ ngu ‘woman’ ale ‘you (sg)’ wo ‘you (pl)’ dule
The following basic vocabulary words are from Voorhoeve (1971, 1975),[3][4] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:[5]
gloss Tofanma head kemble hair kemble-na ear kemb lelu eye jei; yei nose məniti tooth geme tongue goŋgogok leg wanta louse bli bird jetai; yetai egg taili blood leki bone nta skin jefake; yefake breast mo tree kili man lame woman ale sun jaku; yaku moon menti-gaku water basu fire we stone klo road, path meka name emi eat sembe one kenano two neni
References
- ^ Tofanma at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
- doi:10.15144/PL-B31
- ^ Greenhill, Simon (2016). "TransNewGuinea.org - database of the languages of New Guinea". Retrieved 2020-11-05.
- Wambaliau, Theresia. 2005. Survey Report on the Tofanma Language in Papua, Indonesia. (in Indonesian). Unpublished manuscript. Jayapura: SIL Indonesia.
External links
Wiktionary has word lists at Appendix:Pauwasi word lists