Talk:Mount Hagen

What language is most spoken in Mount Hagen? Is it Tok Pisin or some other lingua franca?--Sonjaaa 20:20, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Tok Pisin and Melpa are the two main ones. Melpa is one of the most widely spoken tok ples in PNG. Nomadtales 21:30, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

I always believed, that MtHagen was named after a German man "Von Hagen"??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.104.253.157 (talk) 01:55, 16 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes, you are right, Mount Hagen is named after Curt von Hagen (* 1859, † 1897), a German officer in the Prussian Army, who for several years tried to have succes with plantations of tobacco on the island of Sumatra and then worked for the German colonial administration of German New Guinea (1884–1919) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_New_Guinea

2013 : Deadly violence after accusation of "saguma" (sorcery, black magic)
A 20-year-old mother accused of sorcery has been burnt alive in front of hundreds of people in Papua New Guinea. Gruesome photos of Kepari Leniata being burnt to death yesterday in Mt Hagen, in the Western Highlands, feature on the front pages of both the country's national dailies. http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/south-pacific/8275018/Woman-burnt-alive-as-a-witch-in-PNG The belief in black magic, sorcery, evil spirits and witches is widespread in the Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea: this superstition is called Saguma http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/FightingAgainstSorceryRelatedKillings.aspx 79.251.110.174 (talk) 17:05, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

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>Pronunciation
Do you say or ? That should really be mentioned in the article. Kelisi (talk) 02:10, 15 December 2020 (UTC)