• Christianity. The Urapmin vigorously use their native Urap language, and their small community maintains the practice of endogamy. The Urapmin are one of the...
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  • Tifal is an Ok language spoken in Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Tifal (Tifalmin), Urap (Urapmin) and Atbal (Atbalmin). The Tifal language is bounded by...
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  • Urapmin may refer to: Urapmin people Urapmin language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Urapmin. If an internal link led...
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  • Spirit possession (category Articles containing Urapmin-language text)
    leaves cools it down again. Puja services are often held once a week. The Urapmin people of the New Guinea Highlands practice a form of group possession...
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    Sweet potato (category Articles containing Urapmin-language text)
    ubiquitous in supermarkets, roast meal takeaway shops and hāngī. Among the Urapmin people of Papua New Guinea, taro (known in Urap as ima) and the sweet potato...
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  • Mian is an Ok language spoken in the Telefomin district of the Sandaun province in Papua New Guinea by the Mian people. It has some 3,500 speakers spread...
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    Oksapmin is a Trans–New Guinea language spoken in Oksapmin Rural LLG, Telefomin District, Sandaun, Papua New Guinea. The two principal dialects are distinct...
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  • Faiwol is one of the Ok languages of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken at the headwaters of the Fly, Palmer, and Murray rivers in Western Province. There...
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  • River socio-ecological region. They speak the Wopkai dialect of the Faiwol language. The Ok Tedi Mine, the third largest open pit copper and gold mine in the...
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  • groups such as the Baktaman were at the lowest level. In this ranking, the Urapmin were either at the top or at least very close to the Telefol. Moretti (2007:306)...
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    The Ok languages are a family of about a dozen related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in a contiguous area of eastern Irian Jaya and western Papua New...
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  • the lowest level. The Telefolmins' level may have been matched by the Urapmin. The Telefol possess a ubiquitous accessory called the bilum. Young children...
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    Mundugumor Ogea Orokaiva Sambia Swagap Tairora Tanga Telefol Tsembaga Urapmin Wiru Wola Wopkaimin Yaifo Zia Baining Tolai Trobriand Girls from Papua...
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    Trans–New Guinea (TNG) is an extensive family of Papuan languages spoken on the island of New Guinea and neighboring islands, a region corresponding to...
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  • The Dani or Baliem Valley languages are a family of clearly related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken by the Dani and related peoples in the Baliem Valley...
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    The Madang or Madang–Adelbert Range languages are a language family of Papua New Guinea. They were classified as a branch of Trans–New Guinea by Stephen...
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  • The number of Mian is 3,500, based on the number of speakers of their language, Mian. The Mian are living in small villages in mountainous areas with...
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    example, the Urapmin people used to practice a type of male initiation known in Urap as ban. These elaborate rituals were a central part of Urapmin social life...
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    The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia...
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  • (TAP) languages are a family of languages spoken in Timor, Kisar, and the Alor archipelago in Southern Indonesia. It is the westernmost Papuan language family...
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  • a recently discovered Papuan language cluster spoken in Papua Province, Indonesia, to the south of the Somahai languages. All that is known of them is...
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    beliefs Kaluli religion Korowai religion Trobriand traditional beliefs Urapmin traditional beliefs Micronesian religion Carolinian religion Chamorro religion...
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    The Alor–Pantar languages are a family of clearly related Papuan languages spoken on islands of the Alor archipelago near Timor in southern Indonesia....
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    The Turama–Kikorian languages are a family identified by Arthur Capell (1962) and part of the Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG) family in the classifications...
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    The Anim or Fly River languages are a language family in south-central New Guinea established by Usher & Suter (2015). The names of the family derive from...
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    The Kiwaian languages form a language family of New Guinea. They are a dialect cluster of half a dozen closely related languages. They are grammatically...
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  • The Koiarian languages /kɔɪˈɑːriən/ Koiari are a small family of Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in the "Bird's Tail" (southeastern peninsula) of New...
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    The Greater Binanderean or Guhu-Oro languages are a language family spoken along the northeast coast of the Papuan Peninsula – the "Bird's Tail" of New...
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    Engan, or more precisely Enga – Southern Highland, languages are a small family of Papuan languages of the highlands of Papua New Guinea. The two branches...
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    The Asmat – Kamrau Bay languages are a family of a dozen Trans–New Guinea languages spoken by the Asmat and related peoples in southern Western New Guinea...
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