Boazi (Bwadji), also known as Kuni after one of its dialects, 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 ...
spoken in the
Western Province
Western Province or West Province may refer to:
*Western Province, Cameroon
*Western Province, Rwanda
*Western Province (Kenya)
*Western Province (Papua New Guinea)
*Western Province (Solomon Islands)
*Western Province, Sri Lanka
*Western Provinc ...
of
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...
by the Bwadji people in the vicinity of
Lake Murray and is written using the Latin script. Some recordings of songs and stories have been made in this language.
Further reading
*Drabbe, Petrus. 1954. ''Talen en dialecten van zuid-west Nieuw-Guinea
anguages and Dialects of Southwest New Guinea'. Posieux/Fribourg: Instituut Anthropos.
*Edwards-Fumey, Deborah. 2006. ''The verb subject prefix in Kuni''. MA thesis: Universität Bern.
References
Boazi languages
Languages of Western Province (Papua New Guinea)
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