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.

Boazi
Lake Murray
Geographic distribution	Lake Murray, New Guinea
Linguistic classification	Trans–New Guinea Anim (Fly River)[1] Boazi
Subdivisions	Boazi (Kuni) Zimakani
Glottolog	boaz1244
Map: The Boazi languages of New Guinea   The Boazi languages   Other Trans–New Guinea languages   Other Papuan languages   Austronesian languages   Uninhabited

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	*ɣ

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

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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