| Boazi | |
|---|---|
| Lake Murray | |
| Geographic distribution | Lake Murray,New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Trans–New Guinea |
| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | boaz1244 |
 Map: The Boazi languages of New Guinea The Boazi languages Other Trans–New Guinea languages Other Papuan languages Austronesian languages Uninhabited | |
TheBoazi languages, also known as theLake Murray languages, are a pair of languages in theTrans–New Guinea family, spoken nearLake Murray (Papua New Guinea). They were previously classified in theMarind branch.
The languages areKuni-Boazi andZimakani.
Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows:[2]
| *m | *n | ||
| *p | *t | *k | |
| [*b] | [*d] | *g | |
| *mb | *nd | *ŋg | |
| *f | *s | ||
| *w | *j | *ɣ |
Vowels are *a *e *i *o *u.
The pronouns are:[2]
| sg | pl | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | *no(k) | *ni(k) |
| 2 | *ɣo(k) | *jo(k) |
| 3m | *e- | *i- |
| 3f | *u- |
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