South Tairora love poem

My little love poem is here translated into Tairora (alternative name and dialects: Omwunra-Toqura, Meauna, Atakara, Veqaura (Meauna), Haaviqinra-Oraura, Vaira-Ntosara (Baira), Obura-To'okena, Aatasaara, Vinaata-Konkompira (Pinata-Konkombira), Habina-Oraura, Pinata-Konkombira), a Kainantu language, of the trans-New Guinea language family.

Tairoa is divided into numerous dialects. The real differences are between those of the North and those of the South. This translation is in a southern variant, which for example, unlike those of the north, distinguishes the first person singular from that of the plural.

Tairora as a whole is spoken by approximately 14,000 people, in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, in a circle 60km, in diameter, basically having the village of Suwaira at its center.

The Tairora tribal group who live near the Aiyura Valley in Papua New Guinea has always had the Gadsup group as their traditional enemy. Wars, like everywhere else in PNG, were endemic.

The Tairora have occupied this region for 18,000 years, living first by hunting and gathering and then by a little agriculture (sweet potatoes, yams, taro, bananas, sugar cane), and livestock (pigs).

If their society was patrilineal, with marriages arranged from childhood, between different clans, separations between the sexes, and beliefs based on myths, shamanism and magic, today, under the influence of missionaries, their culture has evolved towards the practices of our modernity.