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East Strickland
Strickland River
Geographic distribution	Strickland River region, Western Province and South Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classification	Papuan Gulf ? Strickland East Strickland
Language codes
Glottolog	east2433
Map: The East Strickland languages of New Guinea   The East Strickland languages   Trans–New Guinea languages   Other Papuan languages   Austronesian languages   Uninhabited

The East Strickland or Strickland River languages are a family of Papuan languages.

Languages

The East Strickland languages actually form a language continuum. Shaw (1986) recognizes six languages, which are:

• Upper: Fembe (Agala), Konai
• Odoodee (Tomu)
• Central/Middle: Gobasi (Nomad), Kubo, Samo (Daba)

Gobasi, Odoodee and Samo, but especially Gobasi, are also known as "Nomad".

Pronouns

Pronouns are:

	sg	du	pl
1	*na, *ã	*o-li, *a-la	*oi
2	*nõ	*nĩ-le	*nĩ
3	*yõ	*i-le	*yã, *di

Vocabulary comparison

The following basic vocabulary words are from McElhanon & Voorhoeve (1970), Shaw (1973), and Shaw (1986), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database.

The words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate (e.g. ulugib, ulukib, ulʌkib for “head”) or not (e.g. dob, helehai, tano for “one”).

Evolution

Proposed East Strickland reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea (pTNG) etyma are:

Samo language:

• (da)subu ‘ashes’ < *sumbu
• si- ‘burn’ < *nj(a,e,i)-
• na- ‘eat’ < *na-
• magara ‘mouth’ < *maŋgat
• korofu ‘skin’ < *(ŋg,k)a(n,t)apu
• mere(ma) ‘tongue’ < *me(l,n)e
• mini ‘nose’ < *mundu

Bibo language:

• (da)suf ‘ashes’ < *sumbu

Agala language:

• fulu(ma) ali ‘to fly’ < *pululu-

References

1. ^ Pawley, Andrew; Hammarström, Harald (2018). "The Trans New Guinea family". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 21–196. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
2. Shaw, Daniel. 1986. The Bosavi language family. In Papers in New Guinea Linguistics 24, 45-76. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. (Papers in New Guinea linguistics No. 24, 45-76).
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4. McElhanon, K.A. and Voorhoeve, C.L. The Trans-New Guinea Phylum: Explorations in deep-level genetic relationships. B-16, vi + 112 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1970. doi:10.15144/PL-B16
5. Shaw, R.D. "A Tentative Classification of the Languages of the Mt Bosavi Region". In Franklin, K. editor, The linguistic situation in the Gulf District and adjacent areas, Papua New Guinea. C-26:187-215. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1973. doi:10.15144/PL-C26.187
6. Shaw, R.D. "The Bosavi language family". In Laycock, D., Seiler, W., Bruce, L., Chlenov, M., Shaw, R.D., Holzknecht, S., Scott, G., Nekitel, O., Wurm, S.A., Goldman, L. and Fingleton, J. editors, Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 24. A-70:45-76. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1986. doi:10.15144/PL-A70.45
7. Greenhill, Simon (2016). "TransNewGuinea.org - database of the languages of New Guinea". Retrieved 2020-11-05.

• Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson (eds.). Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.

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