Papuan language

Other forms: Papuan languages

Definitions of Papuan language
  1. noun
    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
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    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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