Baining people

The Baining or Baininger are an indigenous people in the east of the island of New Britain ( New Britain, formerly New Britain ) in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea. Its traditional territory are the Baining mountains on the northeastern Gazelle Peninsula, where they were displaced as a putative native population of the immigrant from the East Tolai 250 years ago estimated. Even they call themselves Chachet ( "People"), from the neighboring Tolai they are still partially disparagingly as kaulong ( primitive ) refers to the early Europeans took over this setting.

The Baininger are divided into North and Südbaininger with a total of three local authorities ( Nordbaining, Sinivit, Lassulbaining ). The ongoing land acquisition ancestral Baining area by Tolai is a basic problem for the traditional living Baininger.

The Baining languages ​​( Kairak, Makolkol, Mali, Qaqet, Simbali, Taulil - Butam, Ura ) are only spoken on the Gazelle Peninsula, among the East Papuan languages ​​and have a total of about 12000-13000 speaker.

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