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Preface

This Ketengban Primer is written to teach the skills of
reading and writing to speakers of the Ketengban language.
Ketengban is spoken by approximately ten to twelve thousand
people living in the Star Mountains of eastern Irian Jaya in
Kecamatan Okbibap, Kabupaten Jayawijaya, Irian Jaya,
Indonesia. Ketengban is a Papuan language of the Trans-New
Guinea phylum and is a member of the Mek family of
languages.

The literacy approach applied in this book is adapted
from ~ Gudschinsky Method. This book is the fourth in a
series of eight books teaching reading in the Ketengban
language. In addition to this book there is an
accompanying Pre-Primer series. This book should be taught
after the Pre-primer series, books numbers 1-3, have been
taught. The Pre-Primer series is entitled: Ketengban Upu
Pena tep. Ketenemna Buku.

There is also an accompanying guide for teachers using
these materials entitled: Ketengban Upu Petereana Lap Pena
Buku 2, which shows step by step how the primer should be
taught. Indonesian translations of the stories contained in
this primer are appended to the book, and English
translations may be obtained via the Technical Studies
Office of the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Abepura,
Irian Jaya.

The alphabet chosen to write the Ketengban language is
designed to conform as much as possible to that of Bahasa
Indonesia so that the student is able to transfer his
reading skills to the National Language with maximum
effectiveness. The following sounds and combinations of
sounds are basically spoken as in Indonesian. They are: a,
e, i, 0, u, and all consonants appearing in Indonesian
except j, written dy, in Ketengban, and word or syllable
initial p, which represents the voiceless bilabial
fricative, and is pronounced somewhat similar to the sound
of f in English_'fathe~'. In addition there are numerous
vowel and consonant combinations in Ketengban not found· in
Indonesian. Some of these are: ly, kw, ngw, gw, au, ou,
ei.
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