East Strickland languages

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 !2 !3
 * na, *ã||*o-li, *a-la||*oi
 * nõ||*nĩ-le||*nĩ
 * 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:

Evolution
Supposed 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[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-