Burum is a member of the Western Huon branch of the Trans-New-Guinea language family. It is spoken by about 2,000 people in the centre of the Huon Peninsula in Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea, particularly in the villages of Ogeramnang, Mindik, Nömanene, Köiri, Kötken, Weisap, Örögenang, Satnöŋ and Tumnöŋ.
Burum is also known as Yaknge or Somba-Siawari, which are dialects of Burum. It is closely related to Borong, which is spoken in the same area.
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Mönöwök ketaurupnini kewö akzema: Morö nahön dölökunŋi qarigetka asa jike al eŋgiba miaŋgöreŋ neneŋi pakpak soŋgo al eŋgigetka tatketka anda mala nalöŋini mezema. Mi töröiga bau tup nei kömam meget kaŋgoriga suŋgem liŋet unduba tatketka miri giaŋiiga bau qeba ohoba yandiba bau tup mendeŋda eŋgigetka nemba köndeŋda anda kazema. Mewöröp.
Formerly our leaders made like this: As their young males grew, they were put into the boy's house. All food was forbidden from them. They lived there until an appointed time. Then they took a pig, taros, dancing hats and kundu drums and came forth together, sang and danced the whole night until morning. Then they killed the pig, cooked and cut it into pieces, shared the pig and the taros and gave them to eat. They ate,as much as they could and left the leftovers and went home. That's it.
Source: Burum_Mindik Organised Phonology Data. Olkkonen, Soini. 1994.
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Information about Burum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burum_language
http://www.language-archives.org/language/bmu
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/bmu
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Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 09.09.24. Last modified: 09.09.24
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