Boazi languages
The Boazi languages are a pair of languages in the Trans–New Guinea family, spoken near Lake Murray (Papua New Guinea). They were previously classified in the Marind branch.
Boazi | |
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Lake Murray | |
Geographic distribution | Lake Murray, New Guinea |
Linguistic classification | Trans–New Guinea |
Glottolog | boaz1244[2] |
![]() Map: The Boazi languages of New Guinea
The Boazi languages
Other Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited |
The languages are Kuni-Boazi and Zimakani.
Phonemes
Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows:[3]
*m *n *p *t *k [*b] [*d] *g *mb *nd *ŋg *f *s *w *j *ɣ
Vowels are *a *e *i *o *u.
Pronouns
The pronouns are:[3]
sg pl 1 *no(k) *ni(k) 2 *ɣo(k) *jo(k) 3m *e- *i- 3f *u-
gollark: The difference is about 55 orders of magnitude.
gollark: YB is yottabytes, yb is yoctobits.
gollark: Wrong. Entirely.
gollark: Please capitalise prefixes appropriately.
gollark: * YB
References
- New Guinea World, Fly River
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Boazi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- New Guinea World, Lake Murray
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