Boazi languages

Boazi
Lake Murray
Geographic
distribution
Lake Murray, New Guinea
Linguistic classificationTrans–New Guinea
  • Anim (Fly River)[1]
    • Boazi
Subdivisions
Glottologboaz1244
Map: The Boazi languages of New Guinea
  The Boazi languages
  Other Trans–New Guinea languages
  Other Papuan languages
  Austronesian languages
  Uninhabited

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). They were previously classified in the Marind branch.

The languages are Kuni-Boazi and Zimakani.

Phonemes

Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows:[2]

*m *n
*p *t *k
[*b] [*d] *g
*mb *nd *ŋg
*f *s
*w *j

Vowels are *a *e *i *o *u.

Pronouns

The pronouns are:[2]

sg pl
1 *no(k) *ni(k)
2 *ɣo(k) *jo(k)
3m *e- *i-
3f *u-

References

  1. ^ New Guinea World, Fly River
  2. ^ a b New Guinea World, Lake Murray

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. doi:10.15144/PL-A25.1

External links

  • Timothy Usher, New Guinea World, Proto–Lake Murray


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