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Papuan

DEFINITIONS OF: Papuan

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adj of or relating to Papua or its people or language

Papuan native crafts”
Papuan vowels”

n a native or inhabitant of Papua New Guinea or New Guinea

Type of:
Indonesian
a native or inhabitant of Indonesia

n any of the indigenous languages spoken in Papua New Guinea or New Britain or the Solomon Islands that are not Malayo-Polynesian languages

Synonyms:
Papuan language
Type of:
natural language, tongue
a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
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