Rumsey, Alan2015-12-100003-5483http://hdl.handle.net/1885/50592Tom yaya kange is a genre of metrical, sung narrative performed in the Ku Waru region of Highland Papua New Guinea. Describing and exemplifying two varieties of this genre, I show how the language used in them differs from ordinary spoken Ku Waru. The KuMusical, Poetic and Linguistic Form in Tom Yaya Sung Narratives from Papua New Guinea20072015-12-09