East Strickland languages

East Strickland

Geographic
distribution| Western Province and South Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classification| Papuan Gulf ?

* Strickland
* East Strickland

Glottolog| east2433[1]

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 languages are a family of Trans–New Guinea languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross.

## Contents

* 1 Languages
* 2 Pronouns
* 3 Evolution
* 4 References

## Languages

The East Strickland languages actually form a language continuum.[2] Shaw (1986) recognizes six languages, which are:[3]

* Fembe (Agala)
* Odoodee (Tomu)
* Konai
* Central: Gobasi (Nomad), Kubo, Samo (Daba)

The Central languages are clearly related.

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

## Evolution

East Strickland reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea (pTNG) etyma are:[2]

Samo language:

* (da)subu ‘ashes’ < *sumbu
* si\- ‘burn’ < *nj(a,e,i)-
* na\- ‘eat’ < *na-
* magara ‘mouth’ < *maŋgat[a]
* 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. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "East Strickland". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/east2433.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pawley, Andrew; Hammarström, Harald (2018). "The Trans New Guinea family". in Palmer, Bill. The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 21-196. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
3. ↑ 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).

*   * Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". in Andrew Pawley. 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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