At the open house this morning, I saw the books that the language groups had made and I spoke with the participants. There was one book that had animals in it and in the text, each animal made its animal noise, like 'woof' for a dog. The pig's noise was "Mmoo", but when the men said it, it didn't sound like the 'moo' a cow makes, it was more like the grunting sound that pigs make. They even had a sound for the noise that the sun makes! I have never heard the sun make a sound, but I guess in their culture, they believe that the sun says things like animals too.
Here are some of the books the Sos Kundi men made:
I don't understand much Sos Kundi, but the first two words on this page, 'wuna apa' mean 'my father'.
Me talking to a language group about one of their books. (Unfortunately the only photos with me in them were blurry!)
A couple of Papua New Guineans looking at some books.
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