The Boazi languages, also known as the Lake Murray languages, are a pair of languages in the
Trans–New Guinea family, spoken near
Lake Murray (Papua New Guinea)
Lake Murray is the largest lake in Papua New Guinea. It is located in Lake Murray Rural LLG, Middle Fly District, Western Province at , which covers approximately 647 km² and in the wet season increases to five times the size. It has a high ...
. They were previously classified in the
Marind branch.
The languages are
Kuni-Boazi
Boazi (Bwadji), also known as Kuni after one of its dialects, is a Papuan language spoken in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Indep ...
and
Zimakani
Zimakani is a Papuan language spoken in Papua New Guinea by approximately 1,500 people.
Bibliography
The Unevangelized Fields Mission has texts (gospel tracts) of Zimakani.
*Unevangelized Fields Mission. 1956. ''Jesu’ba Woituwoituda''. Unevan ...
.
Phonemes
Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows:
[New Guinea World, Lake Murray]
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:
Vowels are *a *e *i *o *u.
Pronouns
The pronouns are:[
:
]
References
Further reading
*Voorhoeve, C.L. "The Languages of the Lake Murray Area". In Voorhoeve, C., McElhanon, K., Blowers, B. and Blowers, R. editors, ''Papers in New Guinea Linguistics'' No. 12. A-25:1-18. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1970.
External links
* Timothy Usher, New Guinea World
Proto–Lake Murray
Anim languages
Languages of Papua New Guinea
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