| Tofanma | |
| Region: | Papua Keerom Regency, Senggi District, most of Namla, Tofanma Dua, and Tofanma Satu villages |
| Speakers: | 250 |
| Date: | 2005 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Papuan |
| Iso3: | tlg |
| Glotto: | tofa1246 |
| Glottorefname: | 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.
Tofanma vocabulary from Foley (2018):[1]
| 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),[2] [3] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:[4]
| 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 |