| Tofanma | |
|---|---|
| Region | Papua:Keerom Regency,Senggi District, most of Namla, Tofanma Dua, and Tofanma Satu villages |
Native speakers | 250 (2005)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tlg |
| Glottolog | tofa1246 |
| ELP | Tofanma |
Tofanma orTofamna is a poorly documentedPapuan language of Indonesia. Wurm (1975) placed it as an independent branch ofTrans–New Guinea, butRoss (2005) could not find enough evidence to classify it. It appears to be related toNamla, a neighboring language.
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 |
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