Bauzi (also written ''Baudi, Baudji, Baudzi, Bauri'') is a
Papuan language
The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia, Solomon Islands, and East Timor. It is a strictly geographical grouping, and does not imply a ...
of the
East Geelvink Bay family spoken in the
Indonesia
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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
whistled speech
Whistled speech is a form of speech surrogacy in which whistling is used to mimic speech. Speakers of more than 80 languages have been found to practice various degrees of whistled speech, most of them in rugged topography or dense forests, wher ...
.
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
Bauzi verbs that have number agreement for singular and plural:
*''faito'' ‘cut down
��, ''fikboa'' ‘cut down
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*''valo'' ‘pull out
��, ''vaomoa'' ‘pull out
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*''esu'' ‘put
��, ''vahe'' ‘put
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*''ai'' ‘stay
''esi'' ‘stay
��
*''ita'' ‘flee
��, ''ili'' ‘flee
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References
{{Languages of Indonesia
Languages of Western New Guinea
East Geelvink Bay languages