Harsunan Nukuma ƙananan iyali ne na harsuna uku masu alaƙa da juna: [1]

  • Kwoma
  • Kwanga-Mende
    • Kwanga
    • Seim

Gabaɗaya ana rarraba su cikin yarukan Sepik na arewacin Papua New Guinea; Malcolm Ross ya sanya su a cikin reshe na Sepik na Tsakiya na wannan iyali.

Ana magana da su a arewacin Kogin Sepik kusa da Ambunti, da yammacin yankin Ambulas na Mapr (kusa da garin Wosera). [2]

Wakilan sunaye

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Wakilan a cikin yarukan Nukuma: [2]

YiKwatanta ƙamus

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Kalmomin ƙamus masu zuwa sun fito ne daga Foley (2005) [3] da Laycock (1968), [4] kamar yadda aka ambata a cikin bayanan Trans-New Guinea:

Dubi kuma

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  • Mutanen Kwoma

Bayanan da aka ambata

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  1. Ma Archived 2022-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, New Guinea World
  2. 2.0 2.1 Empty citation (help)
  3. Foley, W.A. "Linguistic prehistory in the Sepik-Ramu basin". In Pawley, A., Attenborough, R., Golson, J. and Hide, R. editors, Papuan Pasts: Cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. PL-572:109-144. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2005.
  4. Laycock, Donald C. 1968. Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea. Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66.