Yaweyuha love poem

My little love poem is here translated into Yaweyuha (other names and neighboring dialects that you will find: Yabiyufa, Yaviyufa, Yawiyuha, Ono, Komunku, Ramfau, Korefa).

Yaweyuha is a Papuan language of the Gorokane family, more precisely from the subgroup of Siane languages, spoken by some 2,000 people in the Eastern Highlands, south of Goroka.

South southwest of Goroka, there are several groups considered to be Siane, who share common cultural and linguistic traits. Their different dialects share degrees of mutual understanding, and their cultures are very similar.

To be precise, Yaviyufa is the idiom of the Yaweyuha, Nivi, Wanto, Rafayufa, Omena, Urumfa tribes.

The Yaweyuha clans live like other groups, in villages on the tops beside the Goroka plain region.

They live from hunting, and a local agriculture (gardening), and a little livestock (pigs). They weave their clothes with local resources (fibers).

Their system is patrilineal, and each finds his wife in a surrounding clan. Their beliefs are based on ancestor worship.

In each village there are several people (great men), for whom a role is assigned. A role that can be linked to marriages, various ceremonies and rites, disputes with other groups etc.

In the past, as it is often the case in PNG, wars with deaths and destruction were frequent.