Bauzi language

Bauzi (also written Baudi, Baudji, Baudzi, Bauri) is a Papuan language of the East Geelvink Bay family spoken in the Indonesian province of Papua.

Bauzi
Region	Indonesian Papua
Ethnicity	Bauzi
Native speakers	(1,500 cited 1991)[1]
Language family	East Geelvink Bay Bauzi–Demisa Bauzi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bvz
Glottolog	bauz1241

Dialects are Gesda Dae, Neao, and Aumenefa. Villages are Danau Bira, Itaba, Kustera, Neao, Noiadi, Solom, and Vakiadi.^[2] It is reported to use a mode of whistled speech.

Bauzi is the best documented East Geelvink Bay language, but may or may not be representative of the Geelvink Bay family as a whole.^[3]

Phonology

Consonants:^[3]

	t		k
b	d	ʣ	ɡ
f	s			h
v
m	n
	l

Vowels:^[3]

i	u
e	o
æ
a

Pronouns

Bauzi pronoun roots are:^[3]

	sg	pl
1	e-	i-
2	o-	u-
3	a-

Morphology

The two directional suffixes are:^[3]

• -su ‘toward’
• -to ‘away’

Aspectual suffixes are:^[3]

• 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:^[3]: 521

• faito ‘cut down [SG.OBJ]’, fikboa ‘cut down [PL.OBJ]’
• valo ‘pull out [SG.OBJ]’, vaomoa ‘pull out [PL.OBJ]’
• esu ‘put [SG.OBJ]’, vahe ‘put [PL.OBJ]’
• ai ‘stay [SG.SBJ], esi ‘stay [PL.SBJ]’
• ita ‘flee [SG.SBJ]’, ili ‘flee [PL.OBJ]’