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Papuan Common

Papuan has 6 different meanings across 3 categories:

Noun · Adjective · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a native or inhabitant of Papua New Guinea or New Guinea

2

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

3

Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea

Adjective
1

of or relating to Papua or its people or language

"Papuan native crafts"

"Papuan vowels"

2

From, or pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea

Proper Noun
1

A geographical grouping of languages spoken on the island of New Guinea and its neighboring islands, as opposed to Austronesian.

See Also
papua new guinea girawa abelam amto ki rotokas maybrat new guinea
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
Indonesian natural language
Rhyming Words
xuan euan luan nuan kuan duan guan juan yuan tuan quan ruan huan chuan lauan induan taguan paduan daruan tubuan
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