Yabim, also spelled Yabem and Jabem, are a people in
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
. They speak the
Yabem language
Yabem, or Jabêm, is an Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea.
Overview
Yabem belongs to the division of the Melanesian languages spoken natively (in 1978) by about 2,000 people at Finschhafen, which is on the southern tip of the Huon Peninsu ...
.
German missionaries visited them and wrote about them.
The North Carolina Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church has relations with the Yabim District.
Huon Peninsula
Huon Peninsula is a large rugged peninsula on the island of New Guinea in Morobe Province, eastern Papua New Guinea. It is named after French explorer Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec. The peninsula is dominated by the steep Saruwaged and Finist ...
, Papua New Guinea. Resembles the kundu drum.
References
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Ethnic groups in Papua New Guinea