Boazi language
Boazi, 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 for, for, and for vowel length. Some recordings of songs and stories have been made in this language.
Phonology
- /l/ can fluctuate as sounds . Sounds and are more common in word-medial positions.
- /q/ may also be heard as a retracted velar plosive in free variation.
- /ᶰq/ can also be heard as a prenasal velar fricative in free variation.
- Sounds /s, z/ tend to become alveolo-palatal when in the environment of a high vowel.
- Sounds /v, z/ tend to be devoiced in word-final positions.
- /f/ may be heard in free fluctuation with within the environment of a high vowel.
| Front | Central | Back | |
| High | i | u | |
| High-mid | e | o | |
| Low-mid | ɛ | ʌ | |
| Low | a |