Guhu-Samane is a member of the Binanderean branch of the Trans-New Guinea language family. It has about 12,800 speakers mainly in the villages of Kipu, Qau, Garaina, Bakadza and Sopa in the Bulolo and Huon districts in the south of Morobe Province, and also in Papuan Waria in the north of Oro Province in the southeast of Papua New Guinea.
Other names from Guhu-Samane include Bia, Mid-Waria, Muri, Paiawa and Tahari. Dialects include Kipu, Bapi, Garaina, Sekare and Sinaba, which differ mainly in terms of vocabulary. Guhu-Samane can be written with the Latin alphabet.
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Kheekhe ma khokhora nopoi nee oni. Oonihe nopoho qaraqara oi maina paina. Nopoho patta muunoraiho tupu oi paha oho qesa. Qupi teeta khokhora nagapata ooqi pesuta khupe huhuke muunota. Qate sure biiremi kheekhe baa nagapata biranateta. Biranatemi khokhora noke mooqi hee, "Oi tunai baahubi." Hiireqi atti pesuta tuumaqi khuukhu hiimi kheekhe hee, "Nii eto atti eetaino. Anai tuna bahe ana kheekhe. Oonita baabare." Hiimi noi atti eete suuba khoobata hohoqa naate oota. Oomi kheekhe hiiromi qupi sooromi noi tuusumi khokhora suuba khoobata ooqata meeta.
The crow and the chicken are both birds. But their ways are different. The place where they eat is different too. On day the chicken was eating sweet potato scraps under the house. After the sun went down a crow appeared at the village. The chicken looked and said, "That is a hawk coming." Fearfully he peeked out from under the house and the crow said, "Do not be afraid. I am not a hawk. I am a crow. Now come." Being afraid the chicken stayed huddled at the base of the house stump. Although he said that, when darkness came he went away and the chicken stayed huddled at the base of the house stump.
Source: Guhu-Samane Organised Phonology Data
Some details provided by Michael Peter Füstumum
Information about Guhu-Samane | Tower of Babel
Information about the Guhu-Samane languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guhu-Samane_language
http://www.language-archives.org/language/ghs
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/ghs
https://transnewguinea.org/language/guhu-samane
https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/11977/PP
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Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 05.05.26. Last modified: 05.05.26
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