Bauzi (also written ''Baudi, Baudji, Baudzi, Bauri'') is a

Papuan language The Papuan languages are the non- Austronesian and non-Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people. It is a strictly geogra ...

of the East Geelvink Bay family spoken in the

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n province of Papua. Dialects are Gesda Dae, Neao, and Aumenefa. Villages are Danau Bira, Itaba, Kustera, Neao, Noiadi, Solom, and Vakiadi. It is reported to use a mode of

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. Bauzi is the best documented East Geelvink Bay language, but may or may not be representative of the Geelvink Bay family as a whole.

Phonology

Consonants: : Vowels: :

Pronouns

Bauzi pronoun roots are: :

Morphology

The two directional suffixes are: *-''su'' ‘toward’ *-''to'' ‘away’ Aspectual suffixes are: *imperfective -''da'' *perfective -''ho'' *prospective -''lo'' (homophonous with the verb ‘give’) *inceptive -''le'' (homophonous with the verb ‘come’) *conative -''so'' *resultative/stative -''de'' *iterative -''dete'' ~ -''ia''

Verbs

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