Wiktionary
alt. 1 Melanesian people of Morobe, Papua New Guinea 2 The Malayo-Polynesian language of the Yabim people n. a member of such people n. 1 Melanesian people of Morobe, Papua New Guinea 2 The Malayo-Polynesian language of the Yabim people
Usage examples of "yabim".
Amongst the spirits to whom the people pay a sort of worship there is one named Mate, who seems to be closely akin to Balum, a spirit about whom we shall hear more among the Yabim further to the east.
From a point some miles to the north of Finsch Harbour as far as Samoa Harbour on Huon Gulf the coast is inhabited by two kindred tribes, the Yabim and the Bukaua, who speak a Melanesian language.
I shall deal first with the Yabim tribe, whose customs and beliefs have been described for us with a fair degree of fulness by two German missionaries, Mr.
New Guinea the Yabim build permanent houses, live in settled villages, and till the ground.
Among the Yabim the labour of clearing a patch for cultivation is performed by all the men of a village in common, but when the great trees have fallen with a crash to the ground, and the trunks, branches, foliage and underwood have been burnt, with a roar of flames and a crackling like a rolling fire of musketry, each family appropriates a portion of the clearing for its own use and marks off its boundaries with sticks.
I described the beliefs and practices concerning the dead as they are to be found among the Yabim of German New Guinea.
The language which the Bukaua speak belongs, like the language of the Yabim, to the Melanesian, not to the Papuan family.
Indeed the initiatory ceremonies are performed by the tribes jointly, now in the territory of the Bukaua, now in the territory of the Yabim, or in the land of the Kai, a tribe of mountaineers, or again in the neighbouring Tami islands.
They belong to the aboriginal Papuan stock, whereas the Yabim and Bukaua on the coast are probably immigrants from beyond the sea, who have driven the indigenous population back into the mountains.