East Strickland languages
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| East Strickland | |
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| Geographic distribution | New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Papuan Gulf ?
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| 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. The six languages,
are clearly related.
Gobasi, Odoodee and Samo, but especially Gobasi, are also known as "Nomad".
Pronouns are:
sg du pl 1 *na, *ã *o-li, *a-la *oi 2 *nõ *nĩ-le *nĩ 3 *yõ *i-le *yã, *di
References[edit]
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "East Strickland". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson. 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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