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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 highl ...
. 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, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania t ...
and Zimakani.


Phonemes

Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows:New Guinea World, Lake Murray
/ref> : 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 {{PapuaNewGuinea-stub