To the north of Australia there is a state having more than 800 indigenous languages.
To the north of Australia there is a state having more than 800 indigenous languages. This is Papua New Guinea. This state has many interesting features, let’s look at some of them.
There is a great variety of Papuan languages on a relatively small area of Papua New Guinea.
The name “Papua” is translated from the Malay as “kinky”. Curly hair of Aborigines was the first thing that drew attention of Portuguese Menezes, landed on the island in 1526.
Then in 1545, Spanish explorer Iñigo Ortiz de Retes visited the island, and looking at the aborigines, decided that they are very similar to Afro-Guinea citizens.
According to another version, the shape of the islands reminded him African Guinea. But the point is that he gave the island another name – New Guinea.
Since the beginning of European colonization of the islands and to the acquisition of the state’s independence in 1975, the name had undergone the same changes.
Particle “Papua” was periodically discarded and replaced by the symbol of the country, which at that moment was engaged in the colonization of the islands: British New Guinea, German New Guinea.
On September 16, 1975 the State of Papua New Guinea, located in Oceania, South-West Pacific, gained independence.
In the highlands of Papua New Guinea there is baruyya tribe, which had been isolated from the rest of the world until the 20th century.
Tribal society is highly patriarchal and built around the belief that all things are created from the sperm.
Women in this tribe are considered “defective” people and do not have any rights.
Boys from 8 years of age are separated from their mothers and brought up separately to 20 years. In the process of education the boys are required to do fellatio to older men and swallow their sperm, to adopt the life-force.
Gold, gold, silver, copper and complex gold-copper deposits are the basis of mineral resources of Papua New Guinea. Several deposits of oil and gas have been discovered for the last decade, some of which began to be developed.
There are many companies related to sheet metal forming and other processing of metals.