The East Strickland or Strickland River languages are a family of Papuan languages.

[1] Shaw (1986) recognizes six languages, which are:[2][3] Gobasi, Odoodee and Samo, but especially Gobasi, are also known as "Nomad".

Pronouns are: The following basic vocabulary words are from McElhanon & Voorhoeve (1970),[4] Shaw (1973),[5] and Shaw (1986),[6] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database.

[7] The words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate (e.g. ulugib, ulukib, ulʌkib for “head”) or not (e.g. dob, helehai, tano for “one”).

Proposed East Strickland reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea (pTNG) etyma are:[1] Samo language: Bibo language: Agala language: