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Boazi language

Papuan language of Papua New Guinea From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Boazi (Bwadji), also known as Kuni after one of its dialects, is a Papuan language spoken in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea by the Bwadji people in the vicinity of Lake Murray and is written using the Latin script, with æ for /ɛ/, ø for /ʌ/, and for (relatively infrequent) vowel length. Some recordings of songs and stories have been made in this language.[2]

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Phonology

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  • /l/ can fluctuate as sounds [l ~ d ~ ɾ]. Sounds [ɾ] and [d] are more common in word-medial positions.
  • /q/ may also be heard as a retracted velar plosive [k̠] in free variation.
  • /ᶰq/ can also be heard as a prenasal velar fricative [ᵑɣ] in free variation.
  • Sounds /s, z/ tend to become alveolo-palatal [ɕ, ʑ] when in the environment of a high vowel.
  • Sounds /v, z/ tend to be devoiced [v̥, z̥] in word-final positions.
  • /f/ may be heard in free fluctuation with [θ] within the environment of a high vowel.
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Further reading

  • Drabbe, Petrus. 1954. Talen en dialecten van zuid-west Nieuw-Guinea [Languages and Dialects of Southwest New Guinea]. Posieux/Fribourg: Instituut Anthropos.
  • Edwards-Fumey, Deborah. 2006. The verb subject prefix in Kuni. MA thesis: Universität Bern.

References

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