The East Strickland or Strickland River languages are a family of Papuan languages spoken in the region of the Strickland River in the Western and South Highlands Provinces of Papua New Guinea. Six languages are recognized within the family, including Fembe, Konai, Odoodee, Gobasi, Kubo and Samo, and the family has been tentatively placed within the broader Papuan Gulf languages grouping.
Facts
RegionStrickland River region, Western Province and South Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. 1 Proto-Language StatusNo proto-East Strickland language has been reconstructed as its own node; individual member languages have instead been compared directly against reconstructed proto-Trans-New Guinea forms to test for shared retentions, and the family's own placement within the proposed Papuan Gulf grouping is marked tentative in its own classification record. 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: East Strickland languages
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Evolution section
Proposed East Strickland reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea (pTNG) etyma are:
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