Urim Bug

Mission of this travel bug is to find someone who can understand Urim language! Most of the people knowing this language live in the Northwestern part of Papua New Guinea so it might be a good destination...

If you happen to know someone who might understand Urim, please show the following text to him or her:

Minto awi wor alkeitn! Minto rpma Finland anong kanokg ya watinet ti nira yangkipm kil plalng pa, minto nol pilpilen rpma nungkwangen la, melnum ur a ariwe ok Urim pa ikga nsil yangkipm kil ngkleikg aki kalpis! Kil katnong ur a tu ak ok Inglis pa namput la 'geocache'. Katnong kil kolpa: minto nira yangkipm kil plalng pa, minto lam, eng mpa melnum mla ur nsil ri pa, kil mpa iyekai wa lam, eng mpa wa melnum ur wa nsil ri pa, kil mpa wa iyekai wa lam Kolpa iye kaingkai, kai nsil melnum Urim ur a ariwe ok Urim. Yekei, am kai ansil kitn tike! Antiwe mpa kitn ikilmpa yangkipm kil, la niko la kitn mla wai a kitn rpma kai a i, a kweikwei kolpa? Kol kitn alkitn ake 'geocatcher', melnum a ak ak katnong kil pake, melnum a planteitn yangkipm kil pa, kil antiwe mpa ukwa yangkipm akitnen kulnto pake. Kol kitn ikwonilmpen watipmen la antokg kolai atom minto ariwe ok Urim atom nira yangkipm kil pa, mpa minto laron nikeitn la, melnum walmpopm wris ur amintowen plelng ok ti angklinso. Kil melnum a pikekg anti tu kipm Urim rpma wang watin plelng yangkipm a Maur Wailen kai ok Urim. Minto awi wor uk kitn, nampokgen tu ok Urim wris akitnen, Maur Wailen antiwepm!  Minto ReimaKiddo nira wrkapm kil.

There are about 4000 people speaking a languge called Urim. It is a Stock-Level Isolate of Torricelli Phylum of Papuan Languages and it is located in the southern foothills of the Torricelli Mountains at the border of East Sepik and Sandaun Provinces in Maprik and Lumi sub-districts. The area is divided by Bongos river (Kop Yimpon in Urim) and Sepik highway.



A relative of ours has been working over 30 years with Urim language and is one of the creators of the written Urim language.