East Strickland languages
| East Strickland | |
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| Geographic distribution: | New Guinea |
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| Glottolog: | east2433[1] |
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Map: The East Strickland languages of New Guinea
The East Strickland languages
Other 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. 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
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "East Strickland". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: 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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