Social:East Strickland languages
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| East Strickland | |
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| Geographic distribution | Western Province and South Highlands Province, Papua 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
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The East Strickland languages are a family of Trans–New Guinea languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross.
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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 2.0 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.
- ↑ 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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