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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Districts and LLGs of Morobe Province, Languages of Morobe Province, People from Morobe Province, Yabem language, Numbami language, Iwal language, Tami Islands, Lae War Cemetery, Bukawa language, 2010 Papua New Guinea bus crash, Labu language, Lae Nadzab Airport, Sio language, Black Cat Track, Wau, Papua New Guinea, Adzera language, Kate language, Sattelberg, Finschhafen District, Finschhafen Airport, Bulolo, Wau Airport, Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Gusap Airport, Huon Peninsula, Markham River, YUS Conservation Area, Kevin Prior, Kela language, Salamaua, Duwet language, Huon Gulf languages, North Huon Gulf languages, Markham languages, Morobe, Papua New Guinea, Sio, Papua New Guinea, Malahang, Papua New Guinea, Merire, South Huon Gulf languages, Lae Airport, Zia language, Wasu, Papua New Guinea, Karnai language, Aribwatsa language, Kelanoa, Tewae-Siassi District, Menyamya District, Markham District, Huon District, Bulolo District, Kabwum District, Nawae District, Lae District, Mubo, Wareo, Katika, Papua New Guinea, Siki Cove, Nongora, Gusika, Jivevaneng, Song River, Dreger Harbour, Busu River, Kamaua, Papua New Guinea. Excerpt: Yabem or Jabem is an Austronesian language spoken natively (in 1978) by about 2000 people at the southern tip of the Huon Peninsula in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. However, Yabem was adopted as local lingua franca for evangelical and educational purposes by the German Lutheran missionaries who first arrived at Simbang, a Yabem-speaking village, in 1886. By 1939, it was spoken by as many as 15,000 people, and understood by as many as 100,000 (Zahn 1940). In the decade after World War II, the mission's network of schools managed to educate 30,000 students using Yabem as the medium of instruction (Streicher 1982). Although the usage of Yabem as a local ling...
