A friend got back after spending an year in Papua New Guinea full of interesting stories about the place. Apparently, folks there value pigs very highly. Men pay a bride price in pigs - and these are events all members of the community pay for with individual pigs or money. If a piglet lost its mother a nursing mother would breast feed it! And they are very superstitious of witchcraft. If someone died people who did not (at least pretend to) cry were liable to be accused of black magic and killed!
And he noticed many similarities between their language and Tamil - they use 'vA', 'pO' for 'come' and 'go', and 'neel eravA' for 'bring water'. I told him that he should consider doing a Phd on a comparative study of Tamil and languages of PNG :-)
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