Boazi language

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Boazi
Kuni
RegionPapua New Guinea
Native speakers
4,500 (2007)[1]
Anim
Language codes
ISO 639-3kvg
Glottologkuni1265

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. Some recordings of songs and stories have been made in this language.[2]

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

  1. ^ Boazi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "worldbibles.org". World Bibles.